But on the personality level, he bears more than a passing resemblance to the Very Stable Genius. He love big rallies in big stadiums. As the linked Reuters story says, he has a strong will and a sharp tongue. Observers and particularly apologists seek to reassure the Mexican public that he has "matured" and isn't going to make rash moves.
And consider the timing. We're in a period of peak controversy about illegal immigration. Lopez Obrador calls it a human right:
If even right-leaning Mexican presidents find Trump antagonizing, what will the coming Clash of the Monumental Egos look like?“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”He then declared migration “a human right we will defend,” eluniversal.com reports.
Especially since there's no telling how Trump regards any leader of any nation-state on any given day.
UPDATE: John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist writes about the recent spike in cartel-driven violence in Mexico and its role in the current spike in illegal immigration to the US. In the coverage I've seen about Lopez Obrador, I haven't seen anything about a solid and comprehensive plan for dealing with this head-on.
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