How do you think Trump has or has not lived up to Machiavelli's

>>9076154
Trump? More like Drumpf xD

>>9076154
Awful. He has no understanding of state craft and his press secretary isn't helping.

>>9076154
You do realize Machiavelli wasn't being serious when he wrote The Prince, OP?

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Bannon is actually a magnificent Machiavellian. The way he quietly got himself put on the National Security Council during the height of the furor over the Muslim ban is textbook Nick. It's to the point that I think the Muslim ban may have just been a feint to disguise his true intentions.

>>9076154
I find that painting of Machiavelli really creepy for some reason

>>9077192
The prince isn't satire

>>9077192
Naive sincerity and seriousness are not the same thing, kid. Try to read some day.

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>>9077197
Why is Bannon so great?
I'd have voted for this guy to be POTUS so I couldn't be happier.

>>9077197
>>9077245
Trump is the loud noisy figurehead Bannon needed to rally the everyman and take the electoral college. Bannon is the grand strategist. The Wizard of Oz thing about the man behind the curtain is apt, but the thing is I love the man pulling the strings!

If Trump was truly Machiavelli he would wipe out all opposition, make America a one-party system or just a monarchy with himself as Donald I.

>>9076358
This, the only thing he is doing correctly, completely outside of ideology, is the quiet meetings with corporations and unions to build up support for a massive infrastructure push. Being reactive and undiplomatic serves noone, in Machiavelli the Prince is a cunning genius like Bismarck or Metternich or Cavour. Thus far, outside of ideology, Trump has been a fool.

>>9077197
This guy gets it, Trump is just a reality TV star in another gig, Bannon is legitimately fearsome