The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.