America Vespuccia (EN)

“One American official said foreign officials all ask: “What is this Trump phenomenon? Can he really win?

Because we all remember the last Republican president who was known as the scourge and the nightmare of our age.

For a cowboy that must be a good thing.

“Now, world leaders cop to being afraid of a Trump presidency, and they’re making preparations: scrambling to get deals done with the Obama administration while they still have the chance.

And let the giant fall to sleep again, a creature that has merely succeeded in convincing us with lies. If nothing else.

“The reason for that is not that he must be stupid — nobody thinks that — but that he’s disdainful, unscrupulous, prepared to say anything to harvest the populist vote. And that makes people frightened.

He represents the emptiness of modern man. And that is frightening to even a completely superficialized people. But it misses the point: “the Trump phenomenon” is a natural consequence of the way American politics have been working until now. It merely takes the disregard of the voter one step further.

“Certainly, there’s some schadenfreude at play, too, particularly in Germany. After years of being lectured about democracy by Americans, they’re taking in over a million refugees while Trump’s talking about a ban on Muslim immigration. That [sic] say that gives them the moral high ground, and a sense of the erosion of America’s soft power in Europe.

Did Heisenberg really save the Germans from abomination?

Source: http://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-terrifies-world-leaders/ 21 april 16