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I posted a blog recently about how the world is “laughing at us.”<\/p>\n

My thesis is that the world is laughing at the man — Republican Donald J. Trump — who keeps saying it as he runs for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

I received this response from an Australian friend of mine. His name his Peter. Here is part of what he wrote:<\/p>\n

We stopped laughing a few weeks back, when it became clear Trump was going to roll his way through the primaries with little serious opposition.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

He had what? More than a dozen opponents? And no-one laid a glove on him!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Aside from the mantras, a side of Trump emerged this past week which has sent shudders through us over here.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The revelations about Trump University were bad enough. Trump’s attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel was beyond reprehensible.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

To come from Donald Trump, hard-done-by-businessman-multiple-bankrupt-reality-TV-show-star, would quite frankly be… expected.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

To come as it did from the Republican nominee for President of the United States gave it far more gravitas.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If he had a shred of integrity he would have and should have resigned. He doesn’t so he didn’t.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It was a personal attack on the judge; it was an attack on the court; and an attack on an institution that defines a civilised society.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

He tore the court’s standing up like confetti. You would be threatened with jail for contempt of court in Australia, Britain or Canada for that sort of thing… and rightly so, unless you apologised. Trump probably wouldn’t know how… unless he saw some political advantage in it. And then he’d probably deny apologising the next day anyway.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve got some friends out there in Blogger Land who will ask: Who cares what foreigners think? They’re entitled to think it, even to ask it out loud.<\/p>\n

I care what foreigners think about our major-party presidential candidates because — presuming the candidates intend to win the election — they will be required to work closely with nations all around the planet.<\/p>\n

Thus, it matters.<\/p>\n

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