Anons, I am reading The Last President for the FIRST TIME….
WHOA.
UNCANNY that this book opens in New York City on November 3rd, 1896. The announcement of the newly-elected president of the United States, who happens to be an outsider candidate – the candidate who represented the “common man,” who would liberate the people from the grip of the bankers, and “undo the bad business of years of unholy union between barters and sellers of human toil and the law makers of the land.”
Aka, an anti-establishment candidate. (Trump)
The very first page describes New York in turmoil over the announcement, with mounted policemen yelling through the streets:
“Keep within your houses; close your doors and barricade them. The entire East Side is in an uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of Anarchists and Socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged them for so many years.”
As the riots advance upon Madison Square….“The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob. Would the troops be in time to save it?”
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??
Bets?