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Has fascism go truthful normalised we're desensitised to it?
Given the immense magnitude of powerfulness and power Elon Musk holds, the information we’re adjacent debating whether helium performed a Nazi salute astatine Donald Trump’s inauguration is outrageous (Metro, Wed).
Fascism has go much and much normalised implicit the past 10 years, done some words and actions, truthful that what was erstwhile unthinkable is present virtually mainstream.
Already excessively galore leaders are refusing to archer the information – that Trump and Musk are fascists starring a fascist government.
We indispensable retrieve that the things they bash and the beliefs they correspond are extreme, poisonous and ridiculous.
We cannot and indispensable not fto it consciousness normal. If we fto ourselves beryllium desensitised to fascism, past it volition instrumentality clasp successful our authorities – and we cognize however that ends.
Imagine however this would’ve been seen 10 years ago. This is unacceptable behaviour. None of this is normal. None of this is OK. Ryan Cooper, London
Would Trump’s alteration to law citizenship rights use to himself?
‘He’s the lad of Scottish and German immigrants’
Trump wants to extremity the law close of US citizenship to those children calved successful the state of immigrants, specifically those successful the state illegally oregon connected impermanent visas.
As the lad of a Scottish migrant and grandson of a German immigrant, volition helium suffer his US citizenship and go ineligible to beryllium president? Or conscionable pardon himself? Frank, London
Promises, promises
‘The Donald volition bash it.’
UK politicians promised to halt amerciable immigrants and nonstop them back. It ne'er happened. On his archetypal time successful office, Trump declared ‘a nationalist emergency’ astatine the borderline with Mexico and that helium would nonstop troops determination ‘to repel the disastrous penetration of our country’.
The Donald volition summation the US accumulation of lipid and gas, saying ‘drill, baby, drill’ and thrust prices down. UK politicians are closing down UK lipid and state assets.
The Donald volition retreat from the Paris clime woody and revoke the electrical conveyance mandate, frankincense redeeming the US auto industry.
UK politicians blindly travel the mega-expensive clime book arsenic manufacture haemorrhages workers.
UK politicians lone committedness to chopped the numbers employed successful the nationalist assemblage but The Donald volition bash it. Clark Cross, Linlithgow
Trump’s takeover
‘What benignant of connection does this springiness to the dictators of the world’
Trump would similar to bargain Greenland, marque Canada the 51st US state, instrumentality implicit the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
What benignant of connection does this springiness to the dictators of the world, who privation to grow their countries’ territorial ambitions?
Is it a greenish airy for despots to bash precisely what they like, astatine immoderate the quality cost?
The country’s ideology is present nether threat. Perhaps the US volition precise soon go a totalitarian state. Alan Jensen, West Hampstead
Is this the American Nightmare?
It seems the American Dream consists of hating our planet, driving large gas-guzzling cars connected inexpensive substance and getting abdominous connected accelerated food! What a dream. It’s nary wonderment astir Americans emotion Trump. Green Dave, Manchester
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