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I think Trump illustrates the USA is converging ever more closely with the rest of our hemisphere. He's a generic Latin American caudillo in practice, right down to the xenophobia, corruption, and belief that laws are something that happen to other people.
The USA in practice has always been the most South American Anglosphere society, and it's a fitting and grimly comical irony that a xenophobe preaching hatred of southern America should be the man to define the convergence with well....South America. His excessive reliance on generals and sheer paranoid ranting would fit perfectly with the MO of a Chavez or a Pinochet.
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Date: 6/1/19 00:20 (UTC)I think Trump illustrates the USA is converging ever more closely with the rest of our hemisphere. He's a generic Latin American caudillo in practice, right down to the xenophobia, corruption, and belief that laws are something that happen to other people.
The USA in practice has always been the most South American Anglosphere society, and it's a fitting and grimly comical irony that a xenophobe preaching hatred of southern America should be the man to define the convergence with well....South America. His excessive reliance on generals and sheer paranoid ranting would fit perfectly with the MO of a Chavez or a Pinochet.