Liriena wrote:PaNTuXIa wrote:Way to overdramatize much?
Not really. From where I'm standing, the only thing that really distinguishes Trump from Cristina Fernandez is that Fernandez liked to pretend that she was in fact left-wing, occasionally played the woman card to gaslight her opponents, and although she was prone to doing and saying stupid things now and then, she was not nearly as arrogantly clueless as Trump.
Maduro and Fernandez, much like Trump, were democratically elected, notoriously vindictive and thin-skinned, nationalistic and authoritarian in rhetoric (and quite hypocritical about it), and obscenely corrupt. Fernandez in particular, much like Trump, had terrible social media habits and liked to surround herself with fanatics. She seldom allowed herself to be questioned in public, which means press conferences were extremely rare, and if she had any dialogue with anyone during her speeches, it was with handpicked props, like members of her party pretending to be workers at a factory. And much like Trump, she was a wealthy person and hotel entrepeneur, living a life of luxury, while she derided the urban middle and upper classes as elitist... even though she herself showed quite a bit of elitism of her own (such as when she objected to being booed by students at Harvard by reminding them that they were students at Harvard, not at the University of La Matanza, which is a working class municipality).
Trump is every Latin American populist of the past two decades. And that should worry you immensely.
You're actually asking for a pretty mighty task, considering nobody was worried about it during the elections.