Is Trump a USA phenomenon, or is he a symptom of world wide trend?

[LAS14]

I'm thinking England and Brazil and Italy. Are there more authoritarians than there were 20 years ago?

[mr_lebowski]

1. It's a trend ... that has existed forever (nt)

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. trend

[moondust]

3. Trend.

Energized and emboldened in other countries by Trump and his cult.

[ismnotwasm]

4. In another age he'd be Caligula

Humans invent a working Democracy and humans both improve on it and fuck it up by electing disturbed, evil creeps.

[DBoon]

5. Hungary, Poland, Turkey, India...

definitely a trend

[2naSalit]

6. Definitely a trend.

I've been paying attention for a long time and this is like a second wave of a viral pandemic.

[Shermann]

7. I believe the current international right-wing populism trend started after the Great Recession

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The scary thing is that historically these types of movements gain traction following periods of economic hardship.

[gulliver]

8. A symptom of a disease syndrome that promotes a bunch of trends.

[SheltieLover]

9. Trend of Putin

[canetoad]

10. A trend

And I believe it started with what is called Web 2.0.

In the early 2000s, in the effort to monetize the web without having to pay teams of writers to produce new material every day, website owners decided that the best way to get new content at no cost was to have it written by the users.

I love the internet as much as, if not more than many people. DU is an example of Web 2.0 - but unlike many cess pit forums is populated by right-minded people. Unfortunately that isn't the case on other platforms.