You are comparing apples and oranges. The French have more checks and balances in place that our crappy republic. They don’t have the electoral college, a senate, a two party system and Fox News telling rural Americans how bad the big cities are and immigrants are overrunning everything (ok in France they are actually overrunning everything). In most of the first world countries the internet and cell phones have transformed society so much that I say it’s worse than the Industrial Revolution. We are at the tipping point where urban populations are outnumbering rural populations. But because of our antiquated system rural populations have been over represented. Trump is exploiting this and he’s right. This is the final battle.