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Which bit of history does this represent?
At first I thought it might be the break up of the USSR, but that doesn't really work here. So that leaves me at a loss.
I just can't see how Gorbachev and Trump, or their actions, are similar.
I don't mean it to be a perfect analogy, I just found it funny that these are two idiots enacting big sweeping changes in political or economic organization that are likely to end up killing the host. Gorbachev's USSR died at the hands of the US and its puppets while in the US capital seems to be cannibalizing itself.
I'm not sure calling Gorbechev an idiot is right though.
Just because he was a victim of external interests, as you describe. Feels a bit victim-blamey.
"Look what you made the US do to you".
Yeltsin, maybe though.