Trump and Churchill: A new book looks at both, and chooses Trump by jerryadler
The office makes the man, as the saying goes. Think of Harry Truman, a back-bench senator who was unexpectedly elevated to the Oval Office in 1945. Or Donald Trump, as described in a new book with the grandiloquent title “Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization,” which purports to show how an untested, bombastic real estate speculator grew into greatness.
Oddly, in the book itself, Trump’s height is given, slightly more credibly, as 6 feet 3. Photographs of him alongside 6-foot-1 Barack Obama and 6-foot-3 Alex Rodriguez suggest that is also a generous description. But of course the real interest of the author, the conservative commentator Nick Adams, is Trump’s stature as a world leader, someone worthy of comparison to one of the greatest, albeit shortest, statesmen and orators of the last century.
Story continuesThe comparison to Churchill implies a grand historical sweep to Adams’s argument, evoking Trump standing on the ramparts against a world-threatening menace on the order of Nazi Germany. It might have been easier to make this case if Trump, like Churchill, had actually served his country in uniform, or if he had followed Churchill’s example of calling his countrymen to sacrifice rather than offering soothing promises that a return to normalcy was just around the corner.
In fact, the enemies that Adams credits Trump with facing down seem to exist mostly in Trump’s own imagination, as projected onto his Twitter feed: “deep state” operatives, “triggered college students,” transgender bathrooms and, the perpetual bogeymen of conservatives, activist judges. And, of course, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who together merit 56 mentions in the text.
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