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The first time he got elected I had a woe is me, what does this mean for our country perspective. These days I'm better informed and I know that America is nothing special here. Brexit, Orban, Berlusconi, Alternative for Germany, Le Pen, Netanyahu, Modi -- feel free to throw stones, but I guarantee you have an anti-immigrant group in your country that is doing better than they ever have.

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IMO that makes it scarier. Seemingly the whole planet is taking a sharp rightward turn.

It’s a populist movement by a population that has felt ignored by government.

That, of course, doesn’t make it a good movement, or a smart one.

But, imo, it’s important to understand why populism is popping off right now.

Absolutely. There are solutions to the problem of neoliberalism and the right wing doesn't have them, but I guess they're gonna get a chance to try anyway.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being anti illegal immigration.

My parents had to wait ten years to get their citizenship, do a test, etc.

Meanwhile we let people hop the border and download an app these days. It's a disgrace. Thousands of children missing or trafficked across the border, city culture completely upended, businesses getting cheaper and more desperate labor.

I'm going to go out on a (thick, short) limb and say your parents weren't picking crops in a field or washing dishes at the back of a restaurant. Immigration is a complicated topic and neither party has a plan that will do anything to fix it.

> neither party has a plan that will do anything to fix it.

This seemed like a reasonable "common sense" starting point: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-immigration-as...

Doesn't mean we have to follow them though. Brexit is turning out to be one of the worst self-owns in the history of democracies.

To be fair, Brexit is the only thing that might keep the UK in the AI race given the EU's draconian anti-AI regulations.

France seems to be doing better than UK it seems

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