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A spectacular headline fail from Slate - "Will Donald Trump Be FDR or Jimmy Carter?
In my opinion, anyway.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/will_donald_trump_be_fdr_or_jimmy_carter.html
Read the article if you wish - but there is no way, to my thinking, that malevolent name should ever be in the same sentence as two truly great people.
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A spectacular headline fail from Slate - "Will Donald Trump Be FDR or Jimmy Carter? (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jan 2017
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CanonRay
(14,125 posts)1. More like Benito Mussolini to my way of thinking.
pscot
(21,024 posts)2. i was thinking Gaius Marius
who put the Roman Republic on a slippery slope.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)8. And Mike Pence is like Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain. (eom)
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)3. Combination of Nixon, Reagan and Cheney
There will be wars, corruption and recession with this fuck pretending to be President.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)4. Richard Nixon, William Henry Harrison...
Maybe Benjamin Harrison. There are several ways it could go.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)5. If he could be like either one I would be extremely relieved......
unfortunately, nixon, hitler and sadam are more likely
Freddie
(9,275 posts)6. Warren G. Harding
A useless blowhard enmeshed in scandals. Maybe he can father a love child in a White House closet too.
The best outcome would be William Henry Harrison, dead after 31 days in office.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)7. Pray for rain
during the inauguration.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,400 posts)9. Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here
Betteridge's law of headlines is one name for an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1][2] although the principle is much older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines