A Product of America
The American economy and its foreign policy can affect the whole world so, unsurprisingly, its presidential contest is of interest to even small countries not only nearby but even half way across the world, in both directions.
No wonder then that, in New Zealand, the editor of The Dominion Post, in his 11 October editorial, expressed a view that Trump is not the solution for fixing what Right-leaning Americans suspect is something profoundly wrong with America.
The editor asserts that racism is widespread in the USA and, after financial crisis, disillusion, despair and anger also.
He comments: “This is the dark place where Trump can flourish, just as Hitler flourished amid the rage and despair of Weimar Germany. In this circumstance, the usual democratic restraints fall away...” and “...extremism and madness go not just unpunished but politically rewarded.”
This is my plea to Americans: that they not let it happen.
No wonder then that, in New Zealand, the editor of The Dominion Post, in his 11 October editorial, expressed a view that Trump is not the solution for fixing what Right-leaning Americans suspect is something profoundly wrong with America.
The editor asserts that racism is widespread in the USA and, after financial crisis, disillusion, despair and anger also.
He comments: “This is the dark place where Trump can flourish, just as Hitler flourished amid the rage and despair of Weimar Germany. In this circumstance, the usual democratic restraints fall away...” and “...extremism and madness go not just unpunished but politically rewarded.”
This is my plea to Americans: that they not let it happen.
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