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In reply to the discussion: I spoke with a client this morning who is a Trump supporter [View all]DFW
(54,378 posts)They are just in other areas. There are no greater critics of French politicians, for example, than the French. Most Germans (except the SPD) like Merkel, but they mostly all have no use for one another, and Merkel's party itself is full of resentful men who are furious that a successful woman of both humility and wiliness has managed to outsmart them on the way to the chancellor's office four terms in a row.
It's rare that a nation here unites behind one popular leader with a solid majority. Even the UK only went with BoJo and the Tories because Labor offered up one of the few party leaders who was so unpleasant as to disgust out even Labor. Very few governments here have a solid majority of one party in their parliaments. It's almost always a coalition of several, one or more of whom always demands more influence than their small representation justifies. They often get away with it, too, since they can blackmail the majority with a my-way-or-the-highway threat of blowing up the coalition and sparking new elections.
Many countries have their own Mitch McConnells. It's just that they rarely get the power to do as much evil as Trump and Mitchie have managed to wreak, although Orban in Hungary is coming close. In Turkey, Erdoğan has even surpassed Trump. Erdoğan is smarter and more evil than Trump, but luckily for us, he only rules Turkey, where Trump is more dangerous as an American president who really is a turkey.