CNN’s Christiane Amanpour took a deep dive Saturday into “what the world makes of the U.S. political circus,” now that Donald Trump has swept Iowa and is moving into New Hampshire.

“We cannot deconstruct the minds of the American voter, but how is the world reacting to Trump’s blowout in Iowa?” Amanpour asked The New York Times London Bureau Chief Mark Landler.

Landler said the international belief is that “there’s an inevitability to Trump not just being the nominee, but being restored to the White House.” He continued:

I think for a lot of people outside the U.S., they looked at this with a sense of dread but not surprise. Because I think there’s been a great sense that this is going down a certain track, and that’s one more off ramp that we’ve now avoided, New Hampshire is the next off ramp. So, that’s my sense of it: that there was no surprise, almost a reaffirmation of a fatalism that exists around the world that Americans are going to reelect this guy.

“Why would people…automatically think he’s going to be president again?” Amanpour asked London-based  journalist Emily Maitlist.

“I’d say the number here that people are actually looking at that is leaving people jaw-dropped is the 66% of Iowan voters who believe Donald Trump’s lie,” Maitlist said. “That they have been convinced that Donald Trump is the right president of this time and that his questioning of the legitimacy of Joe Biden is something that he’s taken to Iowa.”

Landler added, “I think that it is more of an emotional feel; that if the country was capable of doing this once before, and they see these kinds of numbers, this kind of incredible, resilient, unshakable loyalty on the part of MAGA Nation, I think it just — it more resides in the pit of their stomach. ‘Well, if it happened before, it could happen again. We need to start planning a as though it may happen again.'”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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