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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 1 Mar 2016

    Why Asia Doesn't Have a Trump or Sanders: Is it the current climate of US pessimism? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kishore-mahbubani/asia-trump-sanders-populism_b_9299086.html … via @theworldpost

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      1. Anna Wallenstam‏ @WALLSTAM 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @theworldpost I disagree. Japanese politics has plenty of Trumps. Chinese politics plenty of geriatric communists like Sanders.

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      1. Communo-Stalinist‏ @ZombieDiamond 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost Sanders isn't fringe. America is fringe. Sanders would be a moderate in most countries.

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      1. 漁夫형 공돌이의 이야기‏ @fischer70 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker like Trump or Bernie here? Terrible enough to imagine, because the present is terrible enough already @theworldpost

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      1. Krème de la Krèmlin‏ @ztarasj 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost Interesting case of blatantly antidemocratic sentiment. "Can populism be killed?" Autocrats can only hope.

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      1. Phelim Kine 林海‏Verified account @PhelimKine 1 Mar 2016
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        Hey @sapinker @mahbubani_k meet #Philippines prez candidate #Duterte aka "The Punisher" http://bit.ly/1LSV1XB pic.twitter.com/0HYIQgrZZr

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      1. more like Hallowe’re gonna have to kill for water‏ @Hanksingle 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost Uhm...what do you think is in Asia?

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      1. Adrian Lopez‏ @PaladinZilch 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker No Trump or Sanders, but they do have Putin and Kim Jong-un.

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost Talk about "shakey". Republicans are exclusively a US phenomenon. Not found in Asia.

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      1. Arun J‏ @arunkj78 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @theworldpost good one, although it tries to write off Bernie as fringe. Only very few aspects of his agenda that are truly left.

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      1. vakibs‏ @vakibs 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost A vast swathe of political movements in Asia are thus simply erased.

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      1. David Harley‏ @DavidHarley6 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost not sure I can agree with that assertion. Have you seen some of them?

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      1. Kitt Johnson‏ @KittJohnson_ 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost don't agree with comparison to Bernie sanders. Wanting change doesn't equate with pessimism always.

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      1. Jim Clark‏ @CatFishFrog 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost Good question along with why did American civilisation evaporate in face of a cyclone Katrina...

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      1. Ryan G.‏ @WeakEmergence 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost It's the Hollywood-ization of political candidacy. There's only one Hollywood...

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      1. khalid khan‏ @khalidbigmouth 1 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheWorldPost we have too many modi and Musharraf and a kejriwal

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