Donald Trump, warts and all, can be a great president. Truly great. He can be great because he has the very rare ability to walk out to a podium and change the conversation of the entire world. He is the rare historical figure that has that ability.
Not in the sense of Obama because frankly the world and especially America just stopped listening to Obama. They lost faith in his lofty words. Because that's what Obama's stock was cut from. Lofty idealistic rhetoric. The kind that is easy to dismiss as idealistic but sadly unrealistic.
Trump is totally different. Trump has the ability to tackle big things. Actually do big things. He can change the entire landscape.
Now what he actually does is of course open to debate and it will undoubtedly depend in part on who Trump surrounds himself with.
But Trump is a historical figure. History is his for the taking. He has the unique ability to not shrink from the significance of his decision-making. To not be cowed by the weight of history. He can chart a whole new way and with just the power of his words bring the majority of the country with him.But to what ends be they good or evil?
We shall see what this man that history has delivered to us so outrageously... so bombastically... will be:
Churchill or Mussolini?