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In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did.
Donald Trump is an avowed capitalist; Hugo Chávez was a socialist with communist dreams. One builds skyscrapers, the other expropriated them. But politics is only one-half policy: The other, darker half is rhetoric. Sometimes the rhetoric takes over. Such has been our lot in Venezuela for the past two decades — and such is yours now, Americans. Because in one regard, Trump and Chávez are identical. They are both masters of populism.
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Good to see someone else saying this. I've been having this deja vu feeling since the primaries, it's like I went back in time to 1998.
There is definitely fertile ground for this to happen here. The writer also talks about communication and showing concern for the political opponents. Confrontation will only make the problem worse.