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'You can't telephone each right-wing populist a fascist'
Ryan Cooper (MetroTalk, Thu) argues that Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi’ salute astatine Donald Trump’s inauguration shows what was erstwhile unthinkable is present mainstream – and I agree.
However, portion it is led by a precise right-wing president who has done and said things that should ne'er person been done oregon said, calling the US authorities ‘fascist’ is incorrect.
Not each right-wing populist is simply a fascist, conscionable arsenic not each left-wing populist question is different Khmer Rouge. Fascism is authoritarian (Mussolini earlier the Salo Republic) oregon totalitarian (Nazi Germany), limiting and yet dismantling democracy, whereas Trump tin beryllium voted retired democratically wrong the adjacent mates of years.
Whether this happens depends connected whether much centrist politicians recognise they person allowed populists to emergence by ignoring the often justified grievances of ample sections of their societies. David Frencel, London
Trump the anti-science president?
‘A furniture of conspiracy theorists and overruling aesculapian reality’
Is this the astir anti-science presidency ever? Trump has promised to ‘drill, baby, drill’ for state and lipid successful the look of an impending clime catastrophe that tin lone beryllium averted by an contiguous modulation distant from fossil fuels.
He’s trying to overrule aesculapian world by declaring his government volition lone recognise 2 genders.
He’s filling his furniture with conspiracy theorists like Bobby Kennedy Jr and declaring warfare connected migration and diversity, contempt each the grounds showing that those factors marque the US richer.
Clearly the US needs a much overtly technological attack to governance, starting with educating radical connected however to deliberation empirically, and putting facts supra feelings. Charlie Parrett, Stoke
Drill, baby, drill; burn, baby, burn; flood, baby, flood; fire, baby, fire… Liz Gowans, London
Is Trump an autocrat?
‘Trump would beryllium amended to code problems astatine home’
Trump says Vladimir Putin is ‘destroying Russia’ by prolonging the warfare with Ukraine (Metro, Wed). He whitethorn good beryllium right, yet helium seeks to adhd Panama and Greenland to his country’s territory and would beryllium prepared to usage equipped aggression to bash so.
Leaders with autocratic instincts spot a overseas warfare arsenic a bully mode to distract attraction distant from home issues.
Trump would bash amended to code problems astatine home, not least, nepotism and cronyism successful the White House. Stephen Spark, Balham
A person you can’t trust?
‘Trump has a agelong past of promising the world’
Clark (MetroTalk, Thu) boasts astir what Trump is doing compared with our government, arsenic if leaving the Paris clime accord is simply a bully thing.
I wonderment what his excuses would beryllium for Trump making promises connected the rising costs of nutrient – a planetary contented – lone to accidental aft winning the predetermination that helium couldn’t committedness prices would spell down arsenic its a ‘difficult subject’?
Or that helium promised to deport immoderate and each immigrants, lone to driblet it arsenic soon arsenic Elon Musk reminded him however overmuch little they tin wage overseas workers?
Trump has a agelong past of promising the world, lone to pivot erstwhile helium has what helium wants. Matthew, Birmingham
Or, 1 that the UK authorities could larn from?
‘The UK needs a antheral similar him’
God bless Donald Trump. The UK needs a antheral similar him, who puts his state archetypal and those calved extracurricular second, arsenic each patriotic leaders should.
Sir Keir Starmer, instrumentality note! As Trump’s parent was calved successful Scotland, helium is entitled to a British passport.
Hopefully helium volition travel over, assertion his practice and beryllium vocal successful his condemnation of this lousy government. Nick Smith, London
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