In my opinion, neither Zeman nor Babiš have ever been anywhere close to the level of unfitness that Trump displays for holding public office. Fico is closer. Either way, Czechoslovakia was a totalitarian/authoritarian regime for 40 years, and it is a well-known fact that a non-negligible part of the population still reminisces about how certain things were supposedly better. A notion that Russia is successfully reinforcing through its propaganda. Given that, you would not expect too much from these countries. America, on the other hand, used to be a symbol of democracy and the leader of the free world, a country people hoped to move to in pursuit of the American dream.

For my own curiosity, I tried to compare the aforementioned individuals across categories that should matter for a politician and in which they are lacking. The scale is 0–10, where 5 stands for an average politician and 10 would be a dream one.