(something I found interesting)
Pippa Norris on Twitter: How authoritarian is the GOP compared with other major parties in OECD societies? Very. The GOP position towards ethnic minority rights & liberal democracy is close to Polish PiS and Turkish AKP, although a few others like Greece's XA are more extreme.
http://globalpartysurvey.org
The text and chart above are from the tweet of the scientist, what follows are my thouhgts.
As you see in the chart, compared globally, Trump is not alone with his views - but in this study he does seem alarmingly extremist. I spot a large party in my own country (FIN_PS - they are in opposition now, so the legislative power they have is limited) a notch more respectful for liberal democratic principles but a smaller notch more racist (YES i think “opposes ethnic minority rights” can be shortened as such).
The problem is, the president of the United States has a lot more political power to make fast changes than any political party in a multi-party parliamentary democracy. But that doesn’t take anything away from the responsibility of citizens in every country to stay informed about what the politicians are on about, vote wisely and speak against hate.