hussein. to mention a few. obama himself abruptly cut short a big meeting with our key democratic ally, india, to attend a memorial service of the king of saudi arabia. maybe some strongmen are better than others, but when obama is involved with strongmen, it's fine. the former president also makes the mistake of assuming that trump, and the millions of people who turned out to vote for him just turned up from the ether, dropped out of the sky. trump was elected in part because many americans were fed up with the weakman leadership of barack obama, the man who drew redlines in disappearing ink. voters in ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania and beyond had had it with globalism, open borders, had it with trade deals that gutted our manufacturing, and gave an upper hand to china. trump voters were also tired of endless war, and they still are. that is called common sense conservative populism. but of course, many in the bipartisan establishment that trump ran against will never admit the failures of globalization, and instead, like obama, they choose to denigrate its skeptics. >> in the west, far right parties that often times are based, not