Imagine you could take a time machine back 20 years and tell people, that in 2025 the world is on the brink of World War 3 and desperately in need of a leader, but the Americans elect a reality tv personality for president, and he starts by embracing Vladimir Putin, wanting to dissolve NATO, and annex Canada, Greenland and parts of Panama.”
— Not a single person would believe you.
My grandfather was Mario Cuomo's COS for a while, other roles too. He told me that this was going to happen when I went to visit with him in 2001, a couple of months before 9-11. According to him:
NY GOP was in bed with Russia in the 80s
The GOP was going to go over to Putin.
Trump was going to be president w/strong backing from the evangelicals.
I excused myself to the bathroom because I thought his mind was slipping. It sounded so insane.