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" We interrupt our regularly scheduled Stupid to bring you the following message from the great Hendrik van Loon, author, journalist, confidant of presidents, mentor to America&amp;#039;s young people, and renowned eccentric prose stylist. This week&amp;#039;s lesson comes to us from Van Loon&amp;#039;s masterwork, The Story of Mankind, which he published in 1921, in which Van Loon makes the case that Napoleon was the proto-Trump. The brutal fellow who destroyed the old Germanic Empire was the son of a Corsican notary-public who had made a brilliant career in the service of the French Republic. He was ruler of Europe by the grace of his famous Guard Regiments, but he desired to be something more. He sent to Rome for the Pope and the Pope came and stood by while General Napoleon placed the imperial crown upon his own head and proclaimed himself heir to the tradition of Charlemagne. For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same. If you don&amp;#039;t think Trump is going to try and crash il Papa&amp;#039;s visit this fall, you&amp;#039;re out of your mind. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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