By Ray Hill
As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was considered a living god by his subjects, ordered his government to sue for peace. Truman’s decision may have saved as many as one million American lives.
Robby Starbuck A New Kind of Republican Candidate
Commentary
“New leadership must be found and, in the tradition of Trump, we should be free to look outside the political class, just as our founders hoped.
“In fact, that should be a hallmark of this renewed Republican Party, bringing forth candidates from all contributing walks of American life.
“New perspectives will work to the benefit of all. In actuality, conservatives are the more natural innovators as Trump demonstrated in the Middle East, for example liberals and progressives the conformists.”
Little did I know… well, to be honest, I kind of suspected it… that the very next day I would be sitting having lunch in the picture-perfect town of Franklin, Tennessee with just such a person.