The John the Baptist

It is difficult for any man (or God) to be the first to express revolutionary thoughts. It is quite useful for there to be a precursor who first exclaims these crazy ideas and therefore is thought by some to be a crazy man. A crazy man that is, until a man (or God) comes along and propagates these same ideas on country that has now been made fertile . . . by his very own John the Baptist.

"In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'"

-  Matthew 3:1

Trump's John the Baptist was:

Ron Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician, and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and then for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate for the Republican Party in 2008 and 2012. 

He espoused positions (using words) that are very similar to the positions (and words) the former Democrat Trump would espouse:

1. Lower taxes. He would completely eliminate the income tax.

2. "not a fan" of the Federal Reserve.

3. Defederalization of the health care system. Paul also was opposed to virtually all federal interference with the market process.

4. Rejecting the notion of "separation of Church and state", instead seeing the issue as "free exercise of religion" and "no establishment of religion". 

5. In 1997, Paul introduced a Constitutional amendment giving states the power to prohibit the destruction of the flag of the United States.

6. In the first chapter of his book, Freedom Under Siege, Paul argued that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to place a check on government tyranny, not to merely grant hunting rights or allow self-defense. When asked whether individuals should be allowed to own machine guns, Paul responded, "Whether it's an automatic weapon or not is, I think, irrelevant." Paul also argues that weapons bans only keep them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, not dangerous criminals. He sees school shootings, plane hijackings, and other such events as a result of prohibitions on self-defense.

7. In 1997, Paul voted to end affirmative action in college admissions.

8. In his 1987 book, Freedom Under Siege, Paul expressed the view that those who experience sexual harassment in the workforce should remedy the situation by quitting their jobs.

9. In 1999, Paul voted for an amendment to HR 2587, the District Of Columbia Appropriations Act, which would have banned adoption by same-sex couples and other couples who lacked a marital or familial relationship in Washington, D.C.

10. Paul has stated "Consider the Lawrence case decided by the Supreme Court in June. The Court determined that Texas had no right to establish its own standards for private sexual conduct, because gay sodomy is somehow protected under the 14th amendment "right to privacy". Ridiculous as sodomy laws may be, there clearly is no right to privacy nor sodomy found anywhere in the Constitution. There are, however, states' rights – rights plainly affirmed in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Under those amendments, the State of Texas has the right to decide for itself how to regulate social matters like sex, using its own local standards."

11. Paul calls himself "strongly pro-life" and "an unshakable foe of abortion".

12. In 2009, Ron Paul asserted "that the greatest hoax I think that has been around in many, many years if not hundreds of years has been this hoax on the environment and global warming."

13. Paul calls for the eventual elimination of Medicare (federally funded health care for the elderly and disabled) and Medicaid (health care for the poor, jointly funded by the federal and state governments), and he has been a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act health insurance reform law that was enacted in 2010.

14. Paul advocates withdrawing U.S. participation and funding from organizations he believes override American sovereignty, such as the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the Law of the Sea Treaty, NATO, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.

15. Paul has stated that secession from the United States "is a deeply American principle" and that "If the possibility of secession is completely off the table there is nothing to stop the federal government from continuing to encroach on our liberties and no recourse for those who are sick and tired of it."

16. He once remarked: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society". Paul opposes affirmative action.

17. A Republican in name only who was disillusioned and extremely critical of a prior Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who he called "a dramatic failure" and stated "Since [1981] Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party have given us skyrocketing deficits, and astoundingly a doubled national debt. How is it that the party of balanced budgets, with control of the White House and Senate, accumulated red ink greater than all previous administrations put together? … There is no credibility left for the Republican Party as a force to reduce the size of government. That is the message of the Reagan years." 

Hitler's John the Baptist was:

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-born German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science; he is described by Michael D. Biddiss, a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as a "racialist writer". Chamberlain married Eva von Bülow, the daughter of composer Richard Wagner, in December 1908, twenty-five years after Wagner's death.

Chamberlain's best-known book is the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), published in 1899, which became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy.

1. In 1881, he described the landlords in Ireland affected by the Land Bill as "blood-sucking Jews (sic)." During this time the main landowning classes in Ireland were Anglo-Irish gentiles.

2. Chamberlain was an early supporter of Hanns Hörbiger's Welteislehre ("World Ice Theory"), the theory that most bodies in our solar system are covered with ice. Due in part to Chamberlain's advocacy, this became official cosmological dogma during the Third Reich.

3. "one of the most fatal errors of our time is that which impels us to give too great weight to the so-called 'results' of science." - Chamberlain, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. London: John Lane,  p. 94.

4. Chamberlain rejected Darwinism, evolution, and social Darwinism and instead emphasized "Gestalt" which he said derived from Goethe.

5. It was only at the age of twenty-three in November 1878, when he first heard the music of Richard Wagner—which struck him with all the force of a religious revelation—that Chamberlain became not only a Wagnerite, but an ardent Germanophile and Francophobe. As he put later, it was then he realized the full "degeneracy" of the French culture that he had so admired compared to the greatness of the German culture that had produced Wagner, whom Chamberlain viewed as one of the great geniuses of all time.

6. His analysis of Hindu texts offered a body of pure Aryan thought that provided the necessary spirituality for Aryan peoples to find true happiness in a world being destroyed by soulless materialism.

   • He argued that these Aryans in the Hindi texts were in fact, Germanic peoples.

   • The popularity of the Hindu texts with the völkisch movement explains why the swastika (see The Symbol), an ancient Indian symbol, was adopted by the völkisch activists as one of their symbols.

7. "One thing I can clearly see, that is, that it is criminal for Englishmen and Dutchmen to go on murdering each other for all sorts of sophisticated reasons, while the Great Yellow Danger overshadows us white men and threatens destruction." Chamberlain in a letter to his Aunt (Geoffrey G. Field, Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain)

8. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century advances various racialist and especially völkisch antisemitic theories on how he saw the Aryan race as superior to others, and the Teutonic peoples as a positive force in European civilization and the Jews as a negative one. The book sold over 250,000 copies by 1938. 

“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy.”

- Fulton J. Sheen