Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.

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    It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

    Joseph Heller, Catch 22

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      You can’t change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful.

      Joseph Goebbels

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        Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

        Christopher Hitchens