Sante Piscoglio the elder who came to Coatesville from Sicily had a business selling high quality Scotch whisky to the wealthy of Chester County PA including Commonwealth Judges.
Mr. Piscoglio lived up the street from me in a beautiful 1920s style stone home with hardwood paneled walls.
I believe that home is the most desirable home in the city limits of Coatesville. Actually what you could call the family room on the west side is in the Coatesville city limits. The rest of the property is in Caln Township.
My introduction to politics as a boy included Sante & the Republican Judges that bought his whiskey during Prohibition. Sante is part of how I came to know Democrats as steelworkers and Republicans as doctors or gangsters.
Theodore “Teddy” Rubino is revered in Chester County Republican Party politics not despite his conviction for extortion but because he defied the law. Rubino almost got away with it.
Rubino Park, our newest recreation area, has 15,000 square feet of play area with a Gazebo entrance. It has been a wonderful addition to the corner of Broad Street and Old Lincoln Highway. The area is fenced in for child safety and provides a great place for picnics and small children play.
Theodore S. A. Rubino Memorial Park
The Republican Party attitude to white collar criminality is the same as in the illegal drugs business, doing prison time is just down time. It’s part of the game.
Teddy Rubino fulfilled the strong man who laughed at the law branch of the Republican Party.
Rubino only had support from wealthy old money and corporate interests in Chester County and Pennsylvania. Most ordinary people never heard of Rubino.
Everyone knows Donald Trump.
Republicans are dearly holding on to Trump’s dress for his comeback in 2024. Donald Trump might be just getting started.
As Donald Trump came out of TV media. Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy for 9 years came out of TV media to run Italy as a strongman.
"Silvio Berlusconi was the first person to assume the premiership without having held any prior government or administrative offices. He is known for his populist political style and brash personality. In his long tenure, he was often accused of being an authoritarian leader and a strongman.[13][14][15] Berlusconi still remains a controversial figure who divides public opinion and political analysts. Supporters emphasize his leadership skills and charismatic power, his fiscal policy based on tax reduction, and his ability to maintain strong and close foreign relations with both the United States and Russia.[16][17][18] In general, critics address his performance as a politician, and the ethics of his government practices in relation to his business holdings. Issues with the former include accusations of having mismanaged the state budget and of increasing the Italian government debt. The second criticism concerns his vigorous pursuit of his personal interests while in office, including benefitting from his own companies' growth due to policies promoted by his governments, having vast conflicts of interest due to ownership of a media empire with which he has restricted freedom of information and finally, being blackmailed as leader because of his turbulent private life.[19][20][21][22]"
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TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS ARE PART OF A GLOBAL TREND TOWARDS ANTI-DEMOCRACY STRONGMAN GOVERNMENT
"The global spread of democracy, a Western gift to the world, was meant to result in the election of liberal, pro-Western leaders. Instead, a wave of strongmen rulers has been elected, many of whom have clear non-Western identities. This list includes Shinzo Abe of Japan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Narendra Modi of India and, looking back further, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. China’s Xi Jinping can be added to this list, emerging as he did from a fiercely competitive political process within the 80 million-member Communist Party of China."
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New York Times
How Strongmen Co-opted Democracy
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