Unfortunately, the problem isn't just America.

Consider Brexit. That's idiocy on at least as grand a scale as Trumpism.

Consider who Europeans have elected recently: Orban in Hungary, the perpetual revolving door in Italy, Boris Johnson in U.K.

Meanwhile, the whole continent is drifting rightward, mostly because of the immigration question.

Macron is right of center and always under threat from the nationalists. Merkel is a centrist but at least a good manager of her government, but she stands out because she is an exception, not the rule regarding good government in Europe.

In Russia and China you have authoritarian nationalists leading the country. You've got Bolsonoro in Brazil, who actually seems to out-Trump Trump, if that is possible, as he burns down the Amazon.

Half of Mexico is besieged by narco cartels (thanks in part to Western drug addicts but also to centuries-old corruption).

Turkey's Erdoğan, an Islamic nationalist, seems to be on autopilot in his re-elections.

Even India has a nationalist in Modi.

Iran is governed by a bunch of theocratic fascists (although it would be fair to say that was a side effect of the U.S. overthrow of Mosaddegh in the 1950s).

Saudi Arabia chops up journalists as the rest of the Middle East's petrodollar leaders yammer on about worshipping Allah while walking around with their pants down in Monaco.

I won't even mention Duterte in the Philippines, whose police haven't seen an extrajudicial killing they don't love.

You probably could have just led off with your headline and left everything in the body of your article out.

Singling out Americans in a world where almost every country is staring down the barrel of the Nationalist gun isn't helpful, and just degrades the point of the headline, which is a valid one.

It *is* a referendum on the country.

But if Trump loses, it won't fix the problem of nationalism that is growing in every single country of this world.

Climate change is turning half the world's population into refugees, and nations are responding with paranoia and far-right nationalism.

Talk about that.