Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, don’t share many similarities. Nehru was an erudite product of Harrow College and Trinity School, Cambridge; Donald Trump, for all his costly schooling, is in the end a rough-and-tumble graduate of New York actual property. A freedom fighter earlier than changing into prime minister, Nehru spent 9 years in British-run jails having campaigned in opposition to imperial rule; Mr Trump’s tangles with the regulation have concerned hush cash for a porn star. Nonetheless, Nehru’s Fabian socialism—a patrician mistrust of commerce blended with an mental love of scientific progress—means his views on commerce are, a few years later, mirrored by Mr Trump’s America-first instincts.
