lpetrich
Contributor
In the 1950's, Bertrand Russell wrote "Nightmares of Eminent Persons", and one of them was Josef Stalin's Nightmare. World War III ends with the Soviet dictator being captured and with some pacifist activists getting to work on them.
Let's see what Donald Trump's nightmare might be. As a hint, I'll quote from No, Oprah is not going to be a viable Democratic candidate (2018 Jan 11):
He had been acquainted with these men in the days of his greatness. Not long before the outbreak of the Third World War they had journeyed to Moscow to plead with him and endeavor to convince him of the error of his ways. They had talked to him of universal benevolence and Christian love. They had spoken in glowing terms of the joys of meekness, and had tried to persuade him that there is more happiness in being loved than in being feared. For a little while he had listened with a patience produced by astonishment, and then he had burst out at them. "What do you gentleman know of the joys of life?" he had stormed. "How little you understand of the intoxicating delight of dominating a whole nation by terror, knowing that almost all desire your death and that none can compass it, knowing that your enemies throughout the world are engaged in futile attempts to guess your secret thoughts, knowing that your power will survive the extermination not only of your enemies but of your friends. No, gentlemen, the way of life you offer does not attract me. Go back to your pettifogging pursuit of profit gilded with a pretense of piety, but leave me to my more heroic way of life."
Let's see what Donald Trump's nightmare might be. As a hint, I'll quote from No, Oprah is not going to be a viable Democratic candidate (2018 Jan 11):
So would it be Oprah Winfrey becoming President?In some ways, they’re perfectly good representatives of the yin and yang of our two political parties. Donald Trump: xenophobic, angry, crude, white male. Oprah Winfrey: kind, sympathetic, open, black female. They’re almost caricatures of the right and left. All they need to do is open their mouths in a public forum and stand there like the apotheosis of their representative parties, and people start clamoring to make them our real political leaders.