The sort of forces that Trump uses are present in most Western countries and always get worse during times of economic hardship; its the reason why the Front National is big in France now, or why UKIP surged in the UK. A big part of it I think is because even though we've technically been "recovering" for a few years now very little of that has actually made it down to working class people, and parties have been able to feed off of that totally reasonable discontent by scapegoating people as being really at fault - it can be "immigrants" or "mexicans" or the EU; provided its something different and foreign some people will agree with you. Its much easier to create a bogeyman and blame that for all of the problems that people are facing rather than try to actually deal with the problem; which is the economic system more broadly.
What's interesting to me is that lots of Trump's rhetoric on trade was also a - only I'd argue that he had a lot more credibility on , while Trump has been using free trade to make lots of money since NAFTA and other agreements were signed; and he's only against it now because he needs votes. I'm not totally anti-free trade, I just think that free trade deals need an dimension that also protects workers and prevents a situation where the deals only benefit capital and not working people: that's why I'm in favour of the EU while opposing TTIP and other similar deals.
Last week I was totally confident that he didn't have a chance; now I'm a lot more worried. Although I imagine that Clinton actually has competent people on her staff which no one seems to have in the UK anymore other than the SNP; so I'm still pretty sure that she'll win. I might just put a few quid on him winning though; so that I can afford to buy the most expensive whisky while the world burns...
I need a JD or vodka with coke. Though last time I had a mop bucket on my head I was been a Dalek funny at the time now well not so much it’s one of those you had to be there situations to fully understand it.
