12-01-2017 16:54 via theguardian.com

For a better parallel with Donald Trump, try Enoch Powell

Both are anti-immigration and pro-Russia. Without media support the British firebrand became an outcast. With Twitter and Fox, Trump became presidentUnderstanding the political success of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, is not easy. There have been many glib comparisons to populist politicians of the past, from Huey Long to George Wallace. But the most revealing comparison may be with a historical figure from another country: the British nativist firebrand Enoch Powell in the late 1960s an
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