Perhaps it's not that Trump is worse than Berlusconi, but that there are less safeguards in American democracy.
In the US the political world has traditionally relied on speeches and the spoken world in general. This is not a bad thing, when the audience is educated and chooses to elect leaders with at least some sense of decency and intelligence. Whether or not you agree with JFK's policies for example, the man could speak. The gradual dumbing down of American society seems to have led to figures like Trump and the erosion of institutions such as the Supreme Court and Congress. Nixon might have been a bad person, but even he would recognize that you cannot dismantle the government from within and expect to remain top dog in world politics.
I truly believe Europeans are less susceptible to speeches, probably because at one point some of us (I'm looking at you, @DAiDEViL) fell for the most stupid speeches known to man. But also in many smaller European countries like Belgium and the Netherlands or in Scandinavian countries, there is no real tradition of rallying behind one strong man.
In the US the political world has traditionally relied on speeches and the spoken world in general. This is not a bad thing, when the audience is educated and chooses to elect leaders with at least some sense of decency and intelligence. Whether or not you agree with JFK's policies for example, the man could speak. The gradual dumbing down of American society seems to have led to figures like Trump and the erosion of institutions such as the Supreme Court and Congress. Nixon might have been a bad person, but even he would recognize that you cannot dismantle the government from within and expect to remain top dog in world politics.
I truly believe Europeans are less susceptible to speeches, probably because at one point some of us (I'm looking at you, @DAiDEViL) fell for the most stupid speeches known to man. But also in many smaller European countries like Belgium and the Netherlands or in Scandinavian countries, there is no real tradition of rallying behind one strong man.
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