Posted on 11/30/2015 5:44:44 PM PST by Mariner
I have a nightmare vision for the year 2017: President Trump, President Le Pen, President Putin.
Like most nightmares, this one probably won’t come true. But the very fact that Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are running strongly for the American and French presidencies says something disturbing about the health of liberal democracy in the west. In confusing and scary times, voters seem tempted to turn to “strong†nationalistic leaders — western versions of Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
In Washington recently, I found most mainstream political analysts dismissing the idea that Mr Trump could win the Republican nomination, let alone the presidency. This struck me as complacent. If Mr Trump were a normal candidate he would be regarded as favourite for the nomination. He is ahead in the crucial early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Outrageous remarks about Mexicans, Muslims, the disabled and women have not dented his popularity.
Many Democrats chortle that if the Republicans are mad enough to nominate Mr Trump, he would certainly be trounced by Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. But even that cannot be assumed. The most recent national poll on a Trump v Clinton contest had Mr Trump winning by five points.
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love to see Marine Le Pen win in France, Would really shake up the E.U., NATO and all them libs in France.
Would be fun watching all them mooselimbs being sent packing beck to the crap hole they came from at the same time Trump was shipping back all them wetbacks
One regional election on Dec 6, and another the following week. It will be interesting to see how Le Pen does.
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