The Second Stooge

My theory is that a culture can only survive three stooges. The third is the herald of doom. Bush was clearly a stooge. Was he the first? Notice I didn't have to specify which Bush.

Trump is a tough call. Bush himself embraced his stoogehood to such an extent he seemed to be his own agent. Trump is in that camp and by all appearances self-regulating.

But he's a stooge at a high level, like Bush, having fully internalized his stoogedom, an avatar and ethical embodiment of the spirit of Gordon Gekko and blind, compulsive greed.

He has no identity or personhood independently of his money. As distressing as Trump is he's only our second stooge and so we still have some time. But what if I missed one?