{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"jerryk wrote","author_name":"jerryk (npub1q8…l4khw)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1q8d2ahgv84997aenfx8ay28a4t5xyhukvcv3nv267g7eqgpg92kqkl4khw","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"I'm just going to quote Wikipedia exactly here, regarding Jerome Savonarola (1452-1498), who acquired power briefly in Florence Italy: \"He became known for his prophecies of civic glory, his advocacy of the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal.\"\n\nNow, does this sound at all just the slightest bit familiar to anyone at the moment?  Anyone at all, hmmmmmm?\n\nWell, I think it might you know. \n\n\"I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.\nAmerica will start winning again, winning like never before.\"\n\n\"Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden Age of America.\"\n\n“I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.”\n\n\"...left wing cultural revolution...\"\n\n“I’m very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God,”\n\nThese are all direct quotations from Donald Trump.  And, they are all highly representative quotations from Donald Trump.  Of course, we have the entire concept of the MAGA movement -- Make America Great Again!\n\nAgain, I will quote exactly from the wikipedia article on Savonarola, this from a Savonarola sermon:   Florence will be \"more glorious, more powerful and richer than ever, extending its wings farther than anyone can imagine\". \n\nUltimately, what destroyed Savonarola was simply his inability to do what he claimed to be able to do.  Florence did not become great again.  Nothing really changed.  And, when Savonarola claimed to be able to order the direct intervention of God, he failed to do so. \n\nWhen Donald Trump claimed he could easily crush the Iranian regime, he failed to do so.  Instead, the Iranian regime has rather easily crippled the US economy, caused runaway inflation for US consumers, and steadily expanded its influene and power in the Middle East, largely driving the US military out of the region, by attacking US bases.\n\nFaced with universal opposition from the Pope and the Catholic clergy who he had attacked and ridiculed, and his own ineffectiveness having become obvious to everyone, Savnonarola was ultimately overthrown by the mob, arrested, tortured and executed.\n\nDouble digit advantages in the generic polling are no longer outliers for the Democrats in the upcoming November midterms in the US.  They are becoming the new normal.  We may be facing the most extreme electoral outcome in US history, almost certainly the most extreme in decades.  What will be Donald Trump's fate next year?   I don't envy him, at all.\n\n\n#history #italianhistory #churchhistory #ushistory #savonarola #politics #geopolitics #trump #donaldtrump #roycohn #uselections #republicans #democrats #philosophyofhistory #maga #conservatives #conservatism #usconservatives #economics"}