HOW ABOUT NO? 'We need a Donald Trump in Australia': how the west was lost http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/a-tired-premier-a-surging-one-nation-and-a-riskadverse-alternative-how-the-west-was-lost-20170309-guv2b1.html … via @theage
One Nation rose in 1997 on racist hyperbole. She was a White supremacist politician when Trump was "just" a hotel billionaire.
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And a Democrat! Watching his run at the nomination and the presidency and seeing him treated as a novelty candidate made me
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furious because whether he won or lost he'd unleashed something vile and it would cast a long shadow, as it did here. It
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didn't mean that intense bigotry didn't already exist, but it has been validated and emboldened. Hanson affected Australia
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alone. The rise of Trumpf has a global knock-on effect. It is the most disturbing and dangerous period I've witnessed and I
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came of age when nuclear proliferation was still a thing (in the 80s).
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