Is Donald Trump a new Winston Churchill? Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, whose daughter Sarah serves as Trump’s press secretary, suggested as much in a tweet yesterday. After watching the new biopic Their Darkest Hour, a tribute to Churchill’s fearlessness in 1940, Huckabee announced that he had been reminded of ‘what real leadership looks like’. He added in a second tweet that for eight years America had a Neville Chamberlain in the form of Barack Obama; now such pusillanimity has been replaced by resolute courage: ‘in @realdonaldtrump we have a Churchill.’
A new battle over Britain has now erupted. Huckabee’s animadversions have been met with outrage and ridicule in the New York Times and among Never Trumpers such as David Frum, who noted that it was the America First movement, led by Charles Lindbergh, that opposed intervening on Britain’s side in the first place.
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