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Ursula von der Leyen is exactly the kind of cultivated, tasteful European who makes Americans most ashamed of Donald Trump and his dumpy, try-hard imitation of European fascism (Photo: EU Commission)

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Trump and von der Leyen — a similar penchant for cronyism

Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump don’t seem to have much in common.

In fact, the patrician German seems to embody everything that Trump is not — she speaks three lang...

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Peter Kuras is a writer and translator based in Berlin.

Ursula von der Leyen is exactly the kind of cultivated, tasteful European who makes Americans most ashamed of Donald Trump and his dumpy, try-hard imitation of European fascism (Photo: EU Commission)

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Peter Kuras is a writer and translator based in Berlin.

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