Around 2006 France elected Nicolas Sarkozy as president.
Among other things the following things happened during Sarkozy's campaign:
-Promise to "clean the poor suburb (mostly populated by north African) with a pressure washer" -Promise to "hung Villepin ( one of his right wing concurrent) to a butcher crowbar"
-Was mocked for his short stature and his insecurities as he used high heeled shoes
-Was under justice investigation for corruption when he was leader of the right wing party (which was put on hold once he was elected, because in France the president is protected from law )
-Was divorcing his wife. He ended up marrying a top-model from Italy once elected.
-Came from a wealthy family where he never had to do anything to come where he was
-Was courting the far right with heavy xenophobic electoral promises
-Had a lot of people, actors, writers, singers, etc promising to leave the country if he was elected
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He is a very narcissistic entitled, insecure with his body, brat.
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His win was pretty shocking. But as you might see, he did nothing of importance.
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The kicker:
He won against our first female candidate
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The post kicker:
That candidate was the wife of our current president.
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I guess politics always repeat itself somehow
Nobody looks back on the accomplishments of Sarkozy or Berlusconi. They look back and go "oh, yeah. That was the period where we talked about fucking scandals for six years." People remember Maggie Thatcher. They remember Tony Blair. David Cameron? He'll mostly be remembered as "worse than Gordon Brown, who we can't recall anything nice to say about."
Sarkozy isn't even close to Trump. I'm speaking orders of magnitude. His win wasn't shocking. He definitely have a lot of issues, but don't try to make them look like they are similar. They aren't.
Sarkozy didn't planned to : - Accelerate the development of shale gas, oil, and other destructive fossil fuels - Downgrading Social Security (which is very high in France and benefits to everyone, for free) - I'm not 100% sure about this one, but I don't think he made a claim about bringing back manufacturing jobs to France in the same manner as Trump. He was elected in 2007 and had to deal with the 2008 crisis, I didn't vote for him, he wasn't great, but he handled it not so badly. I can understand that ooli doesn't like him. I don't either. But we can't compare it to Trump. Sarkozy is the embodiment of the establishment in France, it's the opposite for Trump. Hand-picking some unrelated facts and making it seem like there are similarities between the two is wrong.