Washington's Nightmare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Washington prized patience and had, as Adams put it, "the gift of silence"; Trump is ruled by his impulses and afflicted with verbal incontinence.
67% : Trump viewed the military like a small child surveying a shelf of toy soldiers, referring to "my generals" and ordering up parades for his own enjoyment and to emphasize his personal control.
64% : In a second term, Trump would appoint senior military leaders willing to subvert the military and the Constitution to serve his impulses.
63% : Again, all of them but one.During his term as president, Trump expected the military to be loyal -- but only to him.
62% : After one of the most divisive presidential contests in modern American history, Trump embarked on a kind of victory tour through the states that had voted for him, and only those states.
59% : But the difference between Washington and Trump is so immense as to be unmeasurable.
49% : Trump has praised Flynn and promised to bring him back in a second term.
45% : Trump has left no doubt about his intentions; he practically shouts them every chance he gets.
44% : Trump is unlike all of the men who came before him.
43% : Washington was uncomplaining; Trump whines incessantly.
41% : What was in it for them?"A year ago, Trump suggested that Milley should be executed for actions he'd taken in uniform, including reassuring China of America's political stability both before and after January 6, 2021.
41% : No president in history, not even the worst moral weaklings among them, is further from Washington than Trump.
39% : "Washington personally took up arms to stop a rebellion against the United States; Trump encouraged one.
35% : Less than a year after the book's publication, however, Trump would subvert this centuries-long tradition by summoning a mob against the elected representatives of the United States, after refusing to accept the result of the vote.
30% : This decision, publicly celebrated by Trump, opens frightening opportunities for presidents to rule corruptly and with impunity.
30% : Trump is the man the Founders feared might arise from a mire of populism and ignorance, a selfish demagogue who would stop at nothing to gain and keep power.
30% : Washington foresaw the threat to American democracy from someone like Trump:
29% : Hours later, after one of the worst single days of casualties for law-enforcement officers since 9/11, Trump finally asked his supporters to go home.
28% : Trump stood by as insurrectionists swarmed the House offices and even the Senate chamber itself on January 6, in an attempt to stop the certification of the election by Congress.
26% : Trump was more than willing to turn the American military against its own people.
23% : Trump has none of them.
23% : Washington was financially and morally incorruptible; Trump is a grifter and a crude libertine who still owes money to a woman he was found liable for sexually assaulting.
22% : After leaving the White House, Kelly had described Trump as a "person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about."
21% : Trump is desperate to reclaim power, and he is making threats about what could happen if the American people refuse to give it to him.
20% : Washington was a general of preternatural bravery who grieved the sacrifices of his men; Trump thinks that fallen soldiers are "losers" and "suckers.
20% : "Many Americans in 2016 ignored this warning, and Trump engaged in the greatest betrayal of Washington's legacy in American history.
18% : Such principles baffle Trump -- all principles seem to baffle Trump, and he especially does not understand patriotism or self-sacrifice.
15% : Biden, reportedly hurt that he was being pushed to step aside, nonetheless put defeating Trump above his own feelings and refused to exhibit any bitterness.

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