Yes, he's always been like this

I'm cleaning out some old boxes, and in one from my college years in New York, I found this gem:

I clipped it because I found it shocking at the time. Here was this buffoon demonstrating the corollary to the proverb "even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise," spending whatever it cost to get a full-page ad on page A13 of The New York Times, yearning for the halcyon days when we could just string 'em up.

When I saw the performance-art piece "Imbecile Descending on an Escalator" ten years ago, I could not imagine this encased meat product becoming president. What's left of his drug-ravaged brain still thinks it's 1975* and New York is overrun by those people. He thought so in 1989, thought so in 2015, and thinks so now.

But hey, the old guy you'd move away from if he were ranting on a barstool is reshaping the world today. History will not be kind to him. Or us.

* See this.