Trump's new Wild West cowboy regime is bringing horrors of the past back to haunt us
It was the childish but not unsurprising metaphor JD Vance used to announce that the world order has shifted.And the cowboys are in charge.
In his book ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’, journalist Dee Brown wrote a devastating history of the bloodshed and ethnic cleansing that fuelled the frontier expansion. It strongly featured Trump’s political hero as predecessor in the Oval office Andrew Jackson. “In Sharp Knife’s first message to his congress he recommended that all these Indians be removed westward beyond the Mississippi.”The current Netflix series ‘American Primeval’ is another timely lesson in the brutal truth of exactly how the west was won, a bleak history of rape, plunder and violence. Of winners and losers. The quick and the dead. Trump’s new American dream.
It will be 80 years in June since Bands of Brothers from the US helped liberate Europe for a shared belief in freedom and humanitarian values. Listening to Vance as he demanded “where are the people who fought fascism and won the cold war?”, it was hard not to hear ordinary Ukrainians and Europeans reply in the manner of Tony Soprano: “You’re looking at them asshole.”
As a continent, Europe gave rise to many of the founding concepts of art, philosophy, science, music, democracy and literature. To the renaissance and the age of enlightenment.
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