Donald Trump’s two South American prototypes

Published January 27, 2017 9:25pm ET



Are there other examples, around the world, of the Donald Trump phenomenon? I think so.

President Trump’s election was a surprise, an upset, a rejection of the advice of media, academic and financial elites. So, I argued back in October 2016 in a Washington Examiner column, were the victory of Brexit — leaving the European Union — in the United Kingdom in the June 23, 2016, referendum, and the defeat of President Juan Manuel Santos’s peace pact with the FARC guerrillas in Colombia in an Oct. 2, 2016, referendum.

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