populist

Like Mussolini pumping up a crowd,
Trump's rally conjures Nuremberg of yore.
His planted BrownShirts got 'em chanting loud
as if they thirst for blood, and for race-war.
No vision of a better USA,
no sense all wasn't perfect in our past...
He sells nostalgia for a Golden Age
historians just shake their heads, aghast.
The "greatest generation" fought, and bled
to scour such abom'nations from the Earth.
But bad ideas perversely won't stay dead
when they're convenient to clowns of no worth.
Millennials are gonna have to fight
old battle with the revenant far-Right.