A grotesque mediocrity playing a hero's part

So, on election night of 9 November 2016, I posted:
"This time, the farce"¹
as reference to the beginning of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

Only when I told this Ha ha, only serious joke to my uncle Thomas Nielebock from the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Tübingen two nights ago did he point out to me that, if I bothered to read the full text, I would find a rather apt description of the kind of Self-coup that Trump is trying to get away with:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/preface.htm
"Of the writings dealing with the same subject at approximately the same time as mine, only two deserve notice: Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit and Proudhon’s Coup d’Etat. Victor Hugo confines himself to bitter and witty invective against the responsible producer of the coup d’etat. The event itself appears in his work like a bolt from the blue. He sees in it only the violent act of a single individual. He does not notice that he makes this individual great instead of little by ascribing to him a personal power of initiative unparalleled in world history. Proudhon, for his part, seeks to represent the coup d’etat as the result of an antecedent historical development. Inadvertently, however, his historical construction of the coup d’etat becomes a historical apologia for its hero. Thus he falls into the error of our so-called objective historians. I, on the contrary, demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part."

¹ https://www.facebook.com/Tatzelbrumm/posts/10211137531138694