The #US is dragging #Europe back to the days of white #supremacism. Our leaders are playing along
if we want to protect multiparty liberal #democracy and push back against the #FarRight, we should be far more wary not only of #toxic speeches from across the Atlantic but of #Trump’s close ties to Europe’s #xenophobic parties and the many ways in which the US’s #Maga politicians are legitimising far-right ideologies...
#fascism #Trump #authoritarianism #dictators #dystopian #oppression
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- The fact that the US state department may soon be funding policy-aligned European #thinktanks and charities should be ringing alarm bells across the continent.
When I hear Trump, Rubio and their European acolytes, I wonder why so few of the #EU’s political elite dare to say out loud that we have heard this stigmatising language of exclusion before – and we know where it can lead.
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People like me were targets of the Islamophobia that gripped the west after the US-led ‘war on terror’. Now I fear a chilling sequel is on the way, says Shada Islam, a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs
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