Maybe not an exact comparison considering A.S. was a mere "movie star," not a raving lunatic like Trump. Though I do recall people saying they would vote for Arnie because it would "be cool to have the Terminator as governor." I can imagine the same morons have similar feelings about Trump.

... And Facebook culture, not realizing that there's nothing whatsoever real about it. I could insult them, but this is what our society has bred, we need to understand why this has happened and where we went wrong. Misguided, angry, racist, jealous, all the idiocy one might expect if those cretins reposting bigoted memes on Facebook were to find a meme candidate.

Heinlein knew what was what when it came to politics.