Frank Rizzo deserves all the raspberries you can fling at him. But I don’t recall his being the first American mayor to bomb his own city, as Wilson Goode did, or to steal a neighbor’s $30 billion art collection, which Ed Rendell spearheaded, or to preside over the destruction of a thriving Center City community at the behest of a sports franchise.
Rizzo was far less dangerous. He didn’t have Internet outlets or the Russians spreading lies for him and against his opponents on the Internet, and he was a Catholic and knew he would go to Hell if he lied non-stop as Trump did. Even more important is that Rizzo, unlike Trump, never had access to the nuclear codes and secret documents that he could take with him and show to his pals.
Rizzo was a statesman compared to Trump. Your analogy holds BUT for all his misbehavior, Rizzo was NOT a sociopath. Trump is. Moreover, Trump's dementia is making his personality flaws worse,
Tom Joseph, @TomJChicago, has been tracking Trump's dementia since 2015. He nursed his mom and dad and sister, all of whom died of frontal temporal dementia, so he's been calling out Trump's symptoms for years.
From reader Robert Zaller:
Frank Rizzo deserves all the raspberries you can fling at him. But I don’t recall his being the first American mayor to bomb his own city, as Wilson Goode did, or to steal a neighbor’s $30 billion art collection, which Ed Rendell spearheaded, or to preside over the destruction of a thriving Center City community at the behest of a sports franchise.
From reader Myra Chanin:
Rizzo was far less dangerous. He didn’t have Internet outlets or the Russians spreading lies for him and against his opponents on the Internet, and he was a Catholic and knew he would go to Hell if he lied non-stop as Trump did. Even more important is that Rizzo, unlike Trump, never had access to the nuclear codes and secret documents that he could take with him and show to his pals.
If an elephant walked into the room, Bret Stephens would say it's a mouse with a glandular condition.
Rizzo was a statesman compared to Trump. Your analogy holds BUT for all his misbehavior, Rizzo was NOT a sociopath. Trump is. Moreover, Trump's dementia is making his personality flaws worse,
Tom Joseph, @TomJChicago, has been tracking Trump's dementia since 2015. He nursed his mom and dad and sister, all of whom died of frontal temporal dementia, so he's been calling out Trump's symptoms for years.