Memo to Mike Huckabee: Trump Is No Churchill

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas Governor, GOP presidential also ran and sperm donor to the current White House Press Secretary, worships not at the altar of Christ, but of President Trump. He tweeted that Trump is our Winston Churchill:

Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press. Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness. But unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn't retreat. We had a Chamberlain for 8 yrs; in @realDonaldTrump we have a Churchill.

To be sure, Churchill made his fair share of enemies going from Conservative to Liberal back to Conservative. There were years spent in the political wilderness. But when Churchill supplanted Chamberlain from power in 1940 he did so with the support of both the Tories and the Labour Party. President Trump only talks to Republicans in Congress when he browbeats them.

I would also agree that President Obama behaved in a very Chamberlain-like fashion especially where it concerned Iran and indeed I have argued this point. But we remain a party to the Iran nuclear deal. So how is Trump anything like Churchill? While our military forces have weakened ISIS in Iraq and Syria I think it premature to declare "mission accomplished." Let's see where things are at in a year's time. ISIS might very well regroup by then.

It was Churchill who stood up to Stalin and warned the world of the Iron Curtain while visiting this country. When Trump is confronted by Putin's misdeeds his response is to say that we do plenty of killing of our own.

I'm not so sure Huckabee would necessarily want to compare Trump to Churchill. Despite his gallant leadership during WWII, British voters overwhelmingly rejected him in favor of Clement Attlee's Labour Party in the 1945 general election. It's true that Churchill bested Attlee six years later, but does anyone think Trump wants to be another Grover Cleveland?

Let's also remember that Churchill was a great writer and historian having authored numerous non-fiction books including a six volume set of The Second World War and the four volume A History of The English Speaking Peoples. Trump required a ghost writer to put together The Art of The Deal. 

How can Huckabee honestly believe Trump is our Churchill? Donald Trump utterly lacks Churchill's coherence, eloquence, wit, leadership and the ability to discern good from evil.