I don't know who needs to hear this but no, all politicians are not like Trump.
I can't believe we still have to hear anything resembling "that's just how politicians talk" with regards to TFG at this point.
"If somebody shows you who they are, believe them" is apparently too difficult to grasp.
Also, if all politicians were, in fact, like that it would be an entirely new level of disaster. It's not a justification for brushing off his malicious & insane behavior.
It reminds of Federalist 51 where Hamilton (maybe) laid out the reason for designing a government that could function even with bad people involved.
> But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
