Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think that a right-wing nutjob here can do much in office on his own (just as Obama's been stymied at every turn) but it's a reflection of the feelings of the people, and an indicator that populist sentiment has gotten ugly. What I meant was that Europe in general has been in some sense an ideal to the left here (health care! maternal leave! gun laws!) and so it's sobering to see the populist sentiment (driven, I assume, largely by xenophobic reaction to the refugee crisis) starting to resemble the worst parts of ours.
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Date: 2016-05-24 04:02 pm (UTC)Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think that a right-wing nutjob here can do much in office on his own (just as Obama's been stymied at every turn) but it's a reflection of the feelings of the people, and an indicator that populist sentiment has gotten ugly. What I meant was that Europe in general has been in some sense an ideal to the left here (health care! maternal leave! gun laws!) and so it's sobering to see the populist sentiment (driven, I assume, largely by xenophobic reaction to the refugee crisis) starting to resemble the worst parts of ours.