Bring a candidate next time and stop whining about your fuck-ups. He’s in office because of you.
The whole business about what decorations a President has in his office is just a silly distraction versus the real, severe and, perhaps, catastrophic damage Trump is doing to the fabric of our society and the foreign relationships we have built up through the years. The man is being managed into strange and dangerous actions by Bannon, who believes that we must now have a war with the rest of the world in order for his concept of the future of humanity to be fulfilled.
So you don’t have any actual contribution to this thread (or any valid point, for that matter).
What the hell’s 'Earned Power’ ?
Still, I never blamed Obama for moving the old brute’s bust. Who would want to look at that miserable face ? He’s now on the revolting new plastic £5 notes, glaring smugly.
Churchill? I had believed him to be rather popular, having seen Britain through the Second World War.
Well, he did make Australia a republic for more than 24 hours - that was pretty good…
He is popular with the common press. There have always been differing opinions on his merits both as a politician ( rather over-rated ), as a war-leader ( often excellent, but scarcely irreplaceable; and he learnt at the feet of Lloyd George, the best [ Hitler rated George as supreme in WWI ] ), and as a man ( rather awful ).
During the war there were many who would have preferred him dancing on the air from the end of a rope. Communists for obvious reasons, leftists for his conservatism, conservatives for his changing sides, and various for his frequent bungles in war ( fully as bad as Adolf ). Libertarians now detest him for helping found the Welfare State, anti-imperialists for his semi-alone insistence on keeping the damn thing, and others for his heavy moralizing, and still others for his being a parliament man.
Before the Great War as a minister he was staying at a country house and was seen trudging through the snow with his hand tucked over his stomach under his coat. Even then they knew who he was modelling himself on.
The only criticism I’ve heard of him was “I did not become Prime Minister to oversee the dissolution of the British Empire.”
I thought he and FDR saved the world in WWII.
Apologies for continuing the Churchillian derail, but since Velocity doesn’t seem inclined to return to the thread to defend his OP (which based on the evidence provided by others, is probably indefensible anyway).
Churchill was far from a perfect man or leader, but I recall the late New York columnist Jimmy Breslin (an Irishman through and through so not likely to favor the English) asking people in England about Churchill on his death and one older woman said, simply:
" 'e was there when 'e was needed."
And really, that sort of sums it up. IMHO of course. YMMV
Whoops, I meant Quartz, who wrote the OP, apologies to Velocity.