Listening recently to free lectures from Audible. The speaker was talking about the century or so preceding Charlemagne. Graft, corruption, deceit, back-stabbing (literal and figurative)--and it was clear as crystal that Trump is a direct descendent of that legacy. He, his family, and his cronies were stamped out of an ancient mold that has not altered in 1500 years.
I don't call that progress. But I could be wrong so please can we ship him back to verify? One way ticket, of course.