"it suggests that the most fanatical of Donald Trump’s supporters have bestowed almost divine status on him"....this is worrying. I'm reading Ian Kershaw's 'The Hitler Myth' and Hitler's most ardent followers believed exactly the same thing.
"A handful of MPs have gone on to be heads of government in other countries: ......"
I would question how valid it is to regard post-1922 Northern Ireland as a different country from the pre-1922 United Kingdom. Northern Ireland post-1922 was still a part of the UK, the only difference being that the 26 southern counties had left the Union. Indeed I would extend the same argument to the Southern politicians you mention. They would perhaps say their country hadn't changed, their state had. It depends on how you define "country". How would you classify Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, elected MP for New Ross in 1852, who subsequently emigrated to Australia and ended up as Prime Minister of Victoria?
"it suggests that the most fanatical of Donald Trump’s supporters have bestowed almost divine status on him"....this is worrying. I'm reading Ian Kershaw's 'The Hitler Myth' and Hitler's most ardent followers believed exactly the same thing.
"A handful of MPs have gone on to be heads of government in other countries: ......"
I would question how valid it is to regard post-1922 Northern Ireland as a different country from the pre-1922 United Kingdom. Northern Ireland post-1922 was still a part of the UK, the only difference being that the 26 southern counties had left the Union. Indeed I would extend the same argument to the Southern politicians you mention. They would perhaps say their country hadn't changed, their state had. It depends on how you define "country". How would you classify Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, elected MP for New Ross in 1852, who subsequently emigrated to Australia and ended up as Prime Minister of Victoria?