“I never thought in a million years this country would go through this after coming from Argentina,” said Ms. Echart, 62, who moved to the United States in 1987. But his most recent comments about the legitimacy of the election, with their whiff of third-world tumult, have perversely made some immigrants feel right at home. Few would go so far as to predict mass violence or coups d’état if Mr. Trump lost and refused to concede, given the country’s loyalty to the rule of law. But Mr. Pierre-Louis, 56, is used to such talk. Mr. Pierre-Louis said François Duvalier killed all four of his mother’s brothers and many of his male cousins because one of his uncles had openly opposed the dictator and his regime.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2016 00:22 UTC