Quote (Testiclese @ 6 Nov 2019 02:21)
Thinking about it kinda in the same way you did, the question of "which country would be most habitable for Trump" is an interesting one. As you've mentioned, UK already has their Trump-adjacent. In continental Europe, there's been a lot of anti-Islamic sentiment, although that seems to have died down a bit in the last few months. I feel like the window for that to shine has somewhat passed; that coupled with the fact that ISIS leaders are being bombed like Jager makes me feel like Europe's racist period has passed for now.
Canada is a fascinating concept, because Trudeau seems to be a hodgepodge of hits and misses on sensationalist news. I don't follow Canada closely, so perhaps my perspective is well out of whack, but I think he's but a few more blackface appearances from falling out of favor. I'm...I don't know. I find it hard to believe that Canada would go that far to the right, but hey, stranger things have happened.
Asia would kick him out in a heartbeat. There's no nation that would accept someone as piggishly loud as Trump in the oriental. He's the kind of politician who could easily find a home in one of the smaller European nations--Turkey, Greece, etc. might pick up on a demagogue similar to Trump. Last I heard, Turkey has a problematic leader all their own, but I know sentiments have been a mixed bag in that type of nation for some time.
South America...eh. Gangs. Would Trump survive in a gangland? Probably not, with his fragile ego and penchant to say inflammatory things.
I guess for my money, it's eastern Europe.
Actually, former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is veeeery similar to Trump in a lot of ways. Berlusconi really was a proto-Trump the longer I think about it.
Concerning the anti-migrant and anti-islam sentiment in Europe: if you think those sentiments are over, you're horribly mistaken. Just wait for the next recession with surging unemployment and tightening government budgets, which is already imminent. Similarly, the explosive population growth in Africa coupled with Europe's geographical "vulnerability" means that the migration topic wont be going anywhere.
Things are, or appear, calm at the moment because we're at the tail end of a long economic boom while migration levels at the moment are (barely) low enough to be ignorable for those who
want to ignore the issue. But dont get fooled: considering the darkening economic prospects, the inevitable resurfacing of the Euro crisis and an unrelenting migration pressure on Europe's borders, this is only the calm before the storm.
Mark my words: before 2030, worse figures than Trump will have come into power in multiple big, Western European countries.