If you are wondering how someone like Donald Trump of the United States, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil get elected to power watch the short video below.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria considers the 2019 Indian elections an notes that about one third of their candidates and federal officials have serious criminal charges against them. He the contrasts this to the United States with President Trump.
The majority of Americans believe Trump committed crimes but large numbers of people still voted for him. The argument goes that citizens will tolerate a strong-man tyrant that has criminal tenancies if those crimes tend to favor the voter.
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