The Malignant Fascist's International Impact

 

In his first 100 days in office, the sociopathic ignoramus Malignant Fascist has managed to disrupt the U.S. and world economies, and implement exact "revenge" on his real and perceived adversaries in politics, academia and the legal establishment. But his toxic effect hasn't been limited to U.S. politics; he's flipped elections abroad with voters recoiling from his malevolence, specifically Canada and Australia. From Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir:

"The Trump factor was clearly decisive in returning Canada’s Liberal Party to power, under new Prime Minister Mark Carney, in an election that a few months back it appeared certain to lose. As this column was being written, it became clear that Australia’s center-left Labor Party, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, had won an even more decisive victory 'in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war,' to quote the Washington Post. 

If anything, you could argue that anti-Trump sentiment in those two countries was focused and personal: Voters specifically rejected candidates who reminded them of America's oddly-hued leader. Canada’s opposition Conservative Party actually gained 23 seats in last week’s election, but its youthful hard-right leader, Pierre Poilievre, who has frequently been described as a Trump-style or Trump-curious populist, lost his own seat to a Liberal in Ontario. (Another right-wing lawmaker has resigned his seat in Alberta, presumably allowing Poilievre to worm his way back into Parliament via a special election.) 

In a striking coincidence on the other side of the world, the same fate befell Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton, an ex-cop with hard-line views on crime and immigration who was damaged 'by his perceived ideological closeness' to Trump, in the judicious language of a Reuters report. Dutton lost his Queensland seat to a Labor candidate, which was a major upset but consistent with the [conservative] Liberals’ sweeping defeat." (our emphasis)

As the quoted article's headline says, "MAGA Foreign Policy: So Much Losing!" 

BONUS: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo says she rejected the MF's "offer" to send U.S. troops to Mexico, ostensibly to interdict drug traffickers. "He said, 'How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the United States military come in and help you.' And you know what I said to him? 'No, President Trump.'"  You effing loser, she should have added....