FINANCIAL TIMES
Martin Wolf
March 28, 2016
The Americans will have to decide what sort of person they want to put in the White House
what is one to make of the rise of Donald Trump?
It is natural to think of comparisons with populist demagogues past and
present. It is natural, too, to ask why the Republican party might
choose a narcissistic bully as its candidate for president. But this is
not just about a party, but about a great country. The US is the
greatest republic since Rome, the bastion of democracy, the guarantor of
the liberal global order. It would be a global disaster if Mr Trump
were to become president. Even if he fails, he has rendered the
unthinkable sayable.
Mr Trump is a promoter of paranoid fantasies, a xenophobe and an
ignoramus. His business consists of the erection of ugly monuments to
his own vanity. He has no experience of political office. Some compare
him to Latin American populists. He might also be considered an American
Silvio Berlusconi, albeit without the charm or business acumen. But Mr
Berlusconi, unlike Mr Trump, never threatened to round up and expel
millions of people. Mr Trump is grossly unqualified for the world’s most
important political office. 
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