Rob, 60 million people voted for him and support his policies. He's not alone.
Except that's a small percentage of the population, but even so, did that small percentage have any idea that they would be ruled by a guy who runs "diplomacy" via Tweet, says one thing and contradicts or apologises for it the very next moment, and ignores what many of his own team seem to think is sane?
Of course, that only matters if the voter is sane. From the outside, it seems that is as unlikely a scenario as it is back in my own land.
Kinda reminds me of the current UK political lot, where they are both in meltdown, have no ¡dea what to do next, promise to deliver everything without having the power to deliver anything but disaster through inertia.
Labour is currently enjoying internecine destruction about whether or not it loves Jews. On another front it wants to limit immigration to satisfy the threatened lower earners (if they are threatened, or just imagine it because those damned foreigners visibly do the jobs the Brit thinks less rewarding than the unemployment gig) yet at the same time, knows that that's the number it has to increase in order not only to attract the critical mass of voters it traditionally draws from the lower ranks, but also has to give the impression that it is the party of the open, welcoming arms, something easy to be when you pay for it from the pockets of the higher earners (you dig the circle of interests?) or simply increase your nation's international debt.
Conservatives don't know if they live in the 1800s, if they can just send a gunboat somewhere or if they have to belong to a power greater than their own to ensure national (as in British) survival. Scotland, the while, sings popular songs, mourns burned out old art school buildings that are better flattened and rebuilt to suit today, and sharpens its claymores... The Irish? Who can tell - who ever could? The Welsh? Who dat?
In short, Trumpo could well be the poster boy of many western societies.
Ye gods! How did it come to pass?
