Forget about democracy, republicanism, autocracy, communism, fascism, monarchy, socialism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, tsarism . . . all of the “isms” and other names given to governments throughout the ages. The year 2025 may well go down in history as having given birth to the first new governmental model in centuries:

TRUMPUTINISM

In reality a hybrid of several of the earlier appellations, its uniqueness lies in the fact that it has evolved from the formerly opposing doctrines of two adversarial countries — the United States and the Soviet Union . . . oops, sorry . . . Russia.

In our fable, the current leaders of those two great lands have cannily realized the advantages to themselves of burying the hostilities of the past and joining forces.

Under the umbrella of Trumputinism, they can easily conquer the remainder of the militarily weaker world. There is, after all, enough wealth to share — even for two greedy, narcissistic, power-mad individuals such as themselves. And for several years, they might even rule happily together in their new empire of Mar-a-Moscow.

Well . . . mostly happily, anyway.

That is, until one fateful day, when one of the co-emperors happens to recall a biblical story of two brothers named Cain and Abel, has an epiphany, and . . .

And the rest, as they say, becomes history repeating itself.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/20/25