While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) former governor J. Richard Perry, of the republic of texas, speaking to the Freedom and Opportunity Political Action Committee says of the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump, owner of the Trump Group, that,

       He is without substance when one scratches below the surface.  He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: A toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued.  Let no one be mistaken—Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.

       Postscript: Two years later Perry would be Secretary of Energy under President Trump.

       [added 12/28/2022] Thanks to SmartNews for this entry.