Idiot headline: Trump says We’re Not Weird.
He’s right. He’s not weird at all by the standards of rulers. Genghis and Attila and Caesar and Henry and Catherine and Victoria and Lincoln and Hitler and Mao are the NORM.
LBJ and Nixon and Bush and Trump are strictly NORMAL rulers. Ordinary garden-variety bog-standard mass murderers and torturers, responsible for millions of deaths and billions of ruined lives.
Once in a century a WEIRD ruler comes along, a unique exceptional outlier. FDR was the WEIRDEST of all. FDR made life better for humans and harder for demons. After he died the demons made sure nobody as WEIRD as FDR could ever happen again.
