06-27-2017, 07:17 AM
In all but two countries in which Pew has polled in this survey, people have more respect for former President Obama than for you-know-who.
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The good news for Donald Trump; Russia seems to like him much more than it liked Obama. Go figure.
The third-worst decline is in Germany; Donald Trump's ancestry is half German. The rest is Scots, but Scotland is not a sovereign entity yet, so it is still included in the UK. I'm guessing that it is awful.
What should be most scary is the difference in perceptions in South Korea. South Koreans must have thought themselves safer with Obama as President than with Donald Trump. South Koreans probably expected President Obama to travel to Beijing and tell Chinese leadership that they can have North Korea should it invade the South or fire missiles that ravage Seoul or should it fire missiles against the USA that violate Chinese airspace.
Most of the countries in which President Trump has far less trust than did President Obama are not hotbeds of anti-Americanism. But the distinction between America and Trump could get shaky. I can imagine participating in an anti-Trump demonstration in Toronto or Montreal.
The good news for Donald Trump; Russia seems to like him much more than it liked Obama. Go figure.
The third-worst decline is in Germany; Donald Trump's ancestry is half German. The rest is Scots, but Scotland is not a sovereign entity yet, so it is still included in the UK. I'm guessing that it is awful.
What should be most scary is the difference in perceptions in South Korea. South Koreans must have thought themselves safer with Obama as President than with Donald Trump. South Koreans probably expected President Obama to travel to Beijing and tell Chinese leadership that they can have North Korea should it invade the South or fire missiles that ravage Seoul or should it fire missiles against the USA that violate Chinese airspace.
Most of the countries in which President Trump has far less trust than did President Obama are not hotbeds of anti-Americanism. But the distinction between America and Trump could get shaky. I can imagine participating in an anti-Trump demonstration in Toronto or Montreal.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.