Not even Hollywood could write this script

March 19, 2025

There’s no doubting Trumpian America is an unstable democracy and an untrustworthy ally. Students of history would have by now picked up the similarities between other people who have come to power via democratic process and taken their nation down a disastrous path. Probably the most studied being Adolf Hitler.

The division of Ukraine and the mooted annexation of Canada and Greenland ring warnings for their similarity to Stalin and Hitler dividing Poland, and Germany’s invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia. The number of further parallels is eery.

Often overlooked was that Germany’s industrial and commercial elite assumed they could control Hitler and his Nazis. Once he was entrenched in the Reichstag, they couldn’t.

America, and the world for that matter, has 19 months before the midterm elections, for any movement of sensible and responsible thought could gain control of constitutionally embedded checks and balances.

Although, judging from Trump’s actions after his electoral defeat in 2020, it may be too late. Curbing the impulses of a commander-in-chief gone rogue may turn out to be beyond the political power of the home of the free. As Max Benson wrote; ‘The Manichean moment is over."