Fine by me if these United Snakes knock off the hypocrisy, but let's not pretend it'll make much actual difference.
Trump Is Executing a Major Geopolitical Realignment. Does Anybody Care?
Calling Trump’s pronouncements a mere distraction means allowing our country to align itself against the democracies of the world.
Trump had barely left his lovefest in Singapore—with a dictator who is starving his people to death and has threatened the U.S. with nuclear attack—when he declared, by tweet (of course), that the U.S. news media are the real enemies of the American people.
And it barely registered.
We’re in the grips of a shift in national identity, one in which democracy and adherence to human rights as stated national values (however flawed in their actual execution) are giving way to an acceptance of authoritarian rule. And we’re allowing our country to align itself against the democracies of the world at the hands of a president who is looking more and more every day like a traitor. A president who is helping to fuel the rise of the authoritarian right in Europe.
Just days after Trump walked away from the G-7 consensus statement with a slam at the prime minister of Canada, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was planning to “strengthen the northern border.”
And that announcement, you could say, “barely registered.”
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