BRUCE BAWER: A Trump of One’s Own. “The fact is that while the Western European political class and its allies love to sneer at Donald Trump, millions of ordinary citizens across the continent wish dearly that they had a Trump of their own. Only last week, for example, a caller to Nigel Farage’s radio show in Britain expressed the desire that Trump, and not Theresa May, had negotiated Britain’s exit deal with the EU. Farage shared her sentiments. Then there’s the up-and-coming Dutch political leader Lennard van Mil, known in his country as a ‘gayservative’ (short for ‘gay conservative’), who can be seen in many photographs online wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ cap.”

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