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View original postBut I meant of actually being in power. There will always be populist rumblings, but we tended to think they couldn't latch on in the US, UK.
View original postThat was the year the far-right got so many votes they had to let them in the governing coalition in Austria - cue a lot of dramatic 'we're never going back to ski in Austria anymore!' declarations from politicians in other European countries.
View original postTwo years later the far-right also joined the government in the Netherlands, although considering their leader had been assassinated just weeks before, and that for all the man's own obvious talent his party was just a last-minute gathering of sub-par candidates, it's not too surprising that they spectacularly self-destructed before long.
View original postAdmittedly, all those older cases involve coalition governments, very different from the kind of far-ranging solitary power that a winning candidate or party can hold in the US or UK, so there's a reason to be a lot more concerned about it now. But still, Trump's campaign (which so far his actual government doesn't resemble all that much) reminded many of us of candidates we've seen running, and in some cases seen in ministerial positions, for twenty years or more.
You obviously know much more than I do about obscure politics (I'm American, I'm supposed to say that

So it will be Macron vs Le Pen after all
23/04/2017 09:42:37 PM
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Is this April 2002 or April 2017
23/04/2017 11:56:40 PM
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Do you understand the difference between economics and diplomacy?
25/04/2017 03:40:34 AM
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Sigh do you understand treaties that Germany has sign over 60 years, and not a single treaty but
27/04/2017 11:35:40 PM
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Macron will win.
24/04/2017 03:17:32 PM
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Yeah - win the presidential election, but the real question will be the parliamentary ones.
24/04/2017 06:12:43 PM
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He won't win that, thank God.
26/04/2017 08:57:20 AM
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I don't think so either, but I've seen surprisingly few polls on that so not quite sure.
26/04/2017 11:22:03 PM
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France might make history, here
24/04/2017 08:15:55 PM
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Argentina did this first in the 1970s
24/04/2017 10:58:13 PM
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Are you disregarding parliamentary governments ? *NM*
24/04/2017 11:26:46 PM
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I am disregarding anyone who does not call their president a president, in saying Argentina was the
25/04/2017 01:07:50 AM
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I find that example amusing: Argentina also had a Nip as head of state before we tried a mulatto *NM*
25/04/2017 03:43:20 AM
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Did you just say what I think you said? Cancel that...I really do not want to know. *NM*
26/04/2017 12:31:32 AM
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Peru, not Argentina. If you don't mean Fujimori, I'm curious to know who it is. *NM*
26/04/2017 10:11:22 PM
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This is what France calls a right-winger and a centrist? Have I mentioned I LOVE the Atlantic Ocean?
25/04/2017 03:32:54 AM
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Your statements about wealth and empathy go against pretty much everything I've seen.
25/04/2017 04:03:41 AM
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Those are relative things, yes.
25/04/2017 07:49:01 AM
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Re: Those are relative things, yes.
25/04/2017 05:54:51 PM
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Well it is confusing - you're more effective at defending him than most, however you voted.
25/04/2017 11:30:44 PM
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I expect to the populist/anti-establishment trend to continue
25/04/2017 09:24:38 PM
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It will. This is the shakey start.
27/04/2017 09:31:57 AM
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Start? The start over here was back in 1991.
27/04/2017 07:13:46 PM
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I know what you mean, and I am not up on all my modem history
27/04/2017 08:30:11 PM
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2000, then.
27/04/2017 09:04:39 PM
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I'm not gonna argue!
27/04/2017 11:27:00 PM
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3 podcasters from America try to make sense of France and their system and do analogies to the US
27/04/2017 11:27:52 PM
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