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I get where you are coming from with the rhetoric, but I don't think Trump has blamed minority Americans. The most interesting thing about his campaign strategy seems to be that there is an intellectual reasoning to his polarizing refrains that actually make sense.

When he talks about Mexico paying for a wall, he doesn't literally mean they are going to write the check (though he suggests this – everyone knows that's impossible), he means they will pay for it in trade. NAFTA has benefited Mexico more than it has Canada or the US. I certainly believe electing him will stop this gross outflow of jobs in many areas from imbalanced treaties we should be pulling out of. Trump is left wing in this sense. Even though it was Clinton that made NAFTA happen, the Democratic party then was right of where Trump is now. It was a miscalculation at the very least, and lead to many more complications.

Scandinavia doesn't really work at all. Norway and Iceland (if you consider that Scandinavia) have natural resources that are fairly impervious to short term swings in price. That's why they have opted out of the EU. They don't want to be told how to make a profit. Canada had an upturn based on fracking and other environmentally disastrous strategies for a short term gain. It's easy to justify though politically, an oil boom economically is great for a country.

Where Scandinavia fails though is socialism. Sure, they have a pacified populace relatively low in crime, but the real innovators never stick around. It's truly amazing how many Scandinavian businessmen own Eastern European companies, work in London, or just up and move entirely from the continent. There is a huge brain drain, and they need the immigrants to meet budgets. This is causing chaos, because the immigrants have been shown to almost never assimilate when at a critical mass. The current crop of immigrants also have placed great strain on the system, and there is a shocking amount of anger building now. The continent is unlikely to survive the next 25 years without a war. It could be really ugly. I grew up Muslim, and let me just say the anti-Islamist movement is not wrong when it comes to Muslims immigrating in Europe.

I personally, being Russian, being naturalized American, having emigrated to the Netherlands from the US, and just moved back to the US a couple months ago after very difficult times doing business across northern Europe, can only say that I was not impressed with anything in Scandinavia besides the natural beauty. The people are lazy, the services are overpriced, walking the streets as a woman in a seemingly idyllic Malmo was fraught with danger, and the process to lay any groundwork for a company is nearly impossible. Reddit will tell you the dream of socialist bliss living there, but you can say the exact same things about the Mormon Church. It's quite depressing to be a part of actually. It's not Russia level depressing, but the people are resigned to a quality of life that is only good on paper. Don't believe all the propaganda, especially with Swedes, they are a cult worse than Scientology.

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