There’s no escaping the Donald. As our reporters have crisscrossed the globe, from North America to Europe to Asia, we’ve become somewhat inured to the outsize responses that Trump engenders. But even as the rest of the world decries or extols him, another interesting truth has emerged: There are Trumps-in-waiting in almost every nation, similar at times in their bluster, their riches or their nativist rhetoric. “Trump is not alone,” says Brown University sociologist Michael Kennedy. “They name a problem that others are afraid to name, they invent problems other people don’t see and they wreck systems to demonstrate that, in fact, you need them — because you need someone strong like they are.”
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