#2. The UK Independence Party

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know. Then one day, all of your suspicions are confirmed when a video like this starts making the rounds: The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is for all intents and purposes Britain's version of the Tea Party . Yes, purists, I know that UKIP was founded well before the Tea Party. I'm just making a comparison; let's not turn it into a competition. There's plenty of room for both of our countries to be awful. Anyway, the Tea Party comparison is appropriate in that neither party is openly racist. It's more that you just kind of. Then one day, all of your suspicions are confirmed when a video like this starts making the rounds:



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That's video of former UKIP councillor (Ha! England spells stupid!) Rozanne (Again!) Duncan confirming that she has absolutely no qualms with Pakistani people being in her country, which sounds great until she follows it up with, and I quote, "the only people I do have problems with are Negros, and I don't know why."

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Because you're super-duper racist, maybe?

Yowzers, lady! That is some bold talk! Bold enough, in fact, that it got her kicked out of the party after leader Nigel Farage referred to her remarks as "deeply racist." So she was just one bad apple in the bunch, right? Not so much, as you'll note from this article which points out 15 different instances of UKIP members in full-fledged bigot mode. Here are just a few of the examples they dug up:

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Hey, way to think outside the box on that last one!

Apparently, all of that only falls under the umbrella of "racist" and not "deeply racist," hence the lack of response from the aforementioned Nigel Farage.

Oh, and since he's come up again, it's worth noting that Farage hasn't been at all silent when it comes to the Trump controversy. At one point, he said that Trump's plan to outright ban Muslims from entering the United States went "too far." Which seems like good news, but he also beamed with pride over how The Donald was using talking points similar to those of UKIP to gain popularity. Like how they both think immigrants should be banned from their respective countries because of all the diseases they spread after they arrive, for example.

If those two points make it seem unclear as to where exactly Farage stands on the subject, he set the record straight last month when he openly endorsed the idea of a Trump presidency, saying he'd be "more pro-British" than Obama ever was. I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure what he really means is "pro-white."

#1. Stephen Harper (Canada)

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If any country will try to throw shade over us coming so very close to electing Donald Trump, it will definitely be Canada. For one thing, half the United States has already vowed to move there if Trump is elected. People who live there now will definitely have something to say about the prospect of us flooding their relative lack of shores to exponentially increase their emergency room wait times and whatnot.

They also just elected their first good-time party Prime Minister, the insanely social-media-friendly and super progressive Justin Trudeau.

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Saaaaawooooooon!

So rest assured they'll be riding high on a wave of "It's better up here" confidence. The worse things get here, the more we'll hear about it from the people upstairs about how we should be more like them. That's to be expected, but it certainly doesn't mean they're right. After all, it's not like Canada has been a bastion of progressive thinking over the past decade.

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Thanks a lot, eh!

never veered into Trump territory. Near the end of his reign, he fought hard to make sure Syrian refugees who entered Canada were That's not to say that Harperveered into Trump territory. Near the end of his reign, he fought hard to make sure Syrian refugees who entered Canada were mostly of the non-Muslim variety . That sounds familiar, right?

Speaking of which, he also turned Islam into a wedge issue after his proposal that wearing a niqab (a type of face veil worn by a small minority of Muslim women) should be illegal during Canadian citizenship ceremonies was rejected by a Federal Appeals court. Rather than let the issue die, he vowed to take his case to the Supreme Court and made the ban a divisive talking point at every turn during his campaign.



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He may not be in office anymore, but a campaign like Harper's final failed attempt to stay in power stokes anti-Muslim sentiment in a way that stays with people. As a result, it should surprise no one that in the aftermath of the recent terror attacks in Paris, incidents of violence against Muslims in Canada skyrocketed.

We've seen this all before in this country, and now, with the candidacy of Donald Trump, we're seeing the potentially disastrous result of assuming that hatred and xenophobia are problems that go away once you elect a more progressive leader. The people who were most vehement in their disdain for Muslims didn't just change their mind because we elected Obama.



Quite the opposite, actually.

No, instead they sat around for eight years getting angry that their right to be racist in public was being infringed upon, and now they're rallying around the one man who seems like he maybe agrees. Basically, my point is this: Don't get cocky, Canada. You elected your George W. Bush and survived. Now you've elected your Obama and everything seems right again, but don't be shocked when your version of Trump shows up a few years from now and promises to finish what Stephen Harper started.

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