It is no longer possible to batten down the hatches and think 'this too will pass'
It is no longer possible to batten down the hatches and think ‘this too will pass’now. It is a country that sees its authentic self reflected most clearly in the figure of a sexual predator, a racist, a misogynist, a fraudster, a felon, a coup monger, an inveterate liar and a senescent spewer of increasingly deranged and vulgar nonsense.
As for the rule of law, it was not one of his enemies who described Trump as “a person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.” It was his own former chief of staff John Kelly. Not only is Trump already a convicted felon, but he now does not even have to consider re-election. It will be open season for both personal corruption and for the weaponisation of the justice system against his opponents and critics.
And the openness to migration that has given the US its social, cultural and economic dynamism is threatened by Trump’s plans to terrorise immigrant communities by unleashing a military-led campaign of mass arrests and deportations. But it is also undermined by the spectacular electoral success of Trump’s violently anti-immigrant rhetoric. Every opportunist politician now knows that there are no limits to how far you can go in your attacks on non-white migrants.
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