Petra van Cronenburg19h ago
One of the most incisive political commentaries I’ve read in a long time: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/europe-lesson-donald-trump-era-us-sanity - about an #insane #president who is worse than the pandemic, about the fiction to deal with a #narcissist, about the role of the #EU and why #GB should exit the #Brexit: "Continental #solidarity is not an antidote to chaos amid the waves of a Trumpdemic, but it is the necessary condition for resilience."
BTW, I like this: "The president is mortal. But the Trumpdemic is a more complex syndrome."
Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity

If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian
Show threadBrian Gordon

@NatureMC

An awful lot of highly-placed people who should have known better, took a long time to accept Hitler for what he was. He had to take half of Europe first.

"There is no guarantee that a successor to Trump will be able to restore the old constitutional norms, assuming it is even someone who cares to try. Former US allies would be grateful for a less deranged president, but they cannot be sure that sanity would endure longer than any single election cycle. Trust is gone."

#narcissism

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