" Dutch politician and historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876) is credited with what seems an eerily prescient foreshadowing of the bizarre phenomenon that is 'Trump 2016.'
“Pent-up anger and long-held frustration due to economic stagnation, moral decay, spiritual impotency, and political corruption,” he opined, “invariably pave the way for the rise of crass manipulators. Instead of a mastery of truth, such revolutionary opportunists tap into fear and rage, ignorance and prejudice, staging great public spectacles of narcissism.”
It’s human nature. Such sense of hopelessness, anger, betrayal and frustration can lead otherwise good people (some of whom I respect and admire) to make very bad decisions – to exercise poor judgment.
It gave us Barack Obama in 2008.
Not to mention Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. It's going to be a long ride down.
townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2016/03/27/was-trump-2016-prophesied-centuries-ago-n2139573
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