Trump promises money in your pocket. To supporters in worn-out shoes and old jackets, that mattered. Harris spoke about ‘joy’, but you cannot tell people how to feel
Supporters of Donald Trump wait for a campaign rally to get under way in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sunday November 3rd. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images
We are in an age of rising authoritarianism. The response from the so-called “centre” is empty. New thinking is needed. The die has been cast for a long time. Some Americans seem willing to cede to authoritarianism, and any analysis that is not rooted in how and why authoritarian movements take hold is lacking.Hard not to greet the Dublin City Taskforce report with cynicism
After leaving that rally, I spent the rest of the day nursing a familiar feeling. It’s a feeling I’ve felt upon leaving anti-immigrant marches in Dublin. It gets under your skin. It is a sadness about where people are putting their anger, how they’re being duped, led by grifters, and fed this toxic, macho, empty, racist, resentful rage that has nowhere to go. It ultimately boomerangs as part of a process of self-destruction.
Last Thursday evening, I went to see the play Hothouse by the young Irish theatre company Malaprop at the Irish Arts Center in Hell’s Kitchen in New York City. It’s a brilliant piece of work, rightly earning plaudits. There’s a line in it that speaks to not condemning people, but “an evil situation”.
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