Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
Name one first-world country other than the US and Italy who has had a candidate as awful as Trump in recent times.
UK, BoJo. e.g. He joked that Malaysian women attended university in order to find husbands. He criticised London's Saint Patrick's Day gala dinner celebrations, linking them to Sinn Féin and branding the event "Lefty crap", Tony Abbott welcomed the appointment [as Foreign Secretary] and called him "a friend of Australia". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johnson-wins-most-off... Granted he didn't actually run for PM, but it was a near thing. Wandering through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_world... .cz, Zeman: Zeman had called the ethnic Germans in pre-war Czechoslovakia "Hitler's Fifth column".[40] Zeman stated that "the Czechs and Slovaks were doing the Sudeten Germans a favor by expelling them. thousands of Czechs took part in a demonstration against Zeman, protesting his pro-Russian stance and vulgar language.[26][48] I thought I had something for Duda being super crazy and wanting to deport all vegetarians and tobacco smokers, but I can't find it. Ah, here we go: http://wroclawuncut.com/2016/01/04/foreign-minister-in-cyclists-vegetarians-... http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-35220316 .fr, Le Pen: Marine Le Pen seeks to establish a moratorium on legal immigration.[279][280] she praised David Cameron's pledge to cut net annual immigration to UK from around 200,000 to "tens of thousands".[285] .nl, Wilders: He sparked widespread controversy when he asked "Do you want, [...] more or less Moroccans?", after which they chanted "Less! Less!". Wilders' response was "Then we'll fix it!". He believes that all Muslim immigration to the Netherlands should be halted and all settled immigrants should be paid to leave.[4] "If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome will be next." ...OK, bored now. You might argue that Trump is more "awful" than some of the above because he's such an insane clown, but I submit it's more awful to consider a competent fascist than an incompetent fascist :-P Oh, PS: "developed world" arguably includes unfun places that don't get elections in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain#Human_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei#Human_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Human_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Sharia_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,_2016#Electoral... "unpatriotic" candidates would have to be screened out by a Beijing-controlled nominating committee.[4]