It includes preventing “transgender for everybody” in American sports; using a heavy hand—perhaps the death penalty, the president said—to crack down on violent crime; the ongoing threat of windmills; the foul state of traffic medians; the speed with which water flows; and the attempts at securing peace deals for as many as seven international wars, a number that seems to grow by the day. In the 1980s, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu was routinely called “the Giant of the Carpathians”, “the Source of Our Light”, “the Treasure of Wisdom and Charisma”, “the Great Architect”, “the Celestial Body”, and “the New Morning Star” by major public figures, and “court poets” wrote embarrassing encomiums to his rule (Sebestyen 2010, p. 161). Beginning in the late 1930s, Francisco Franco’s sycophants compared him to Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, El Cid, Charles V, and most of the kings of the “Golden Age” of Spain; routinely praised him as a “military genius” and said to be “providentially ordained” as savior of Spain, a veritable “messiah of civic redemption;” called him “the Sun” and the “Father of Peace;” and exalted his intelligence, political acuteness, work habits, physical stamina, literary acumen, and even his sense of humor and his skills as a hunter, fisherman, and golf player (Fernández 1983, pp.
Author: Charles P. Pierce
Published at: 2025-08-27 22:26:00
Still want to read the full version? Full article
