So we see billionaire technology bosses who once posed as brave liberals suddenly acting as pathetic quislings, pouring cash into the coffers for his inauguration while ripping away controls on online hate and misinformation. One of them, given a government role, openly seeks to subvert British politics.
Brace yourself for the second coming of Trump. We have four years of this tumult to endure.
Nor with Canada, a placid country with whom the US shares the world’s longest border and is so deeply entwined culturally and economically.
As so often with Trump, he spoke nonsense at times: China does not control the Panama Canal, as he suggested, and there is no evidence Hezbollah was involved in the 6 January insurgency in Washington.
This was most apparent with his headline-grabbing demand to buy Greenland. As I discovered while reporting there 15 months ago, there is deep unease over Danish rule and their enforced development that bubbles beneath the surface of this massive, resource-rich Arctic nation.
Naja Lyberth, a trauma therapist who exposed this disturbing campaign, one which rode roughshod over medical ethics and human rights, told me it was only after she helped break down walls of silence that they could understand why so many of their women were unable to have children. She went on to explain how traditional communities that lived off hunting felt looked down upon by Danes.
It was clear many Greenlandic people resent Danish control. They won home rule in 2009 from their former colonial masters but despite having their own flag, they do not have control over their currency, courts or security. Polls indicate a majority of the 56,000 citizens living there back independence.
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Read MoreThere are no signs the people of Greenland want to trade one colonial master for another, however – especially one so intent on pillaging their mineral wealth. Still, this idea is more likely than the concept of Canada becoming the 51st US state (a move that might ensure a Democratic electoral majority, given Canadians’ liberalism).
It is bad enough that we must witness the return of this selfish man who deliberately undermined a key tenet of democracy – that a leader must relinquish power after electoral defeat.
This shatters attempts to cling to any pretence of rules-based international order, while sending a destructive signal to dictators such as China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin that they do not need to respect the rights or sovereignty of nations such as Taiwan and Ukraine.
One thing is certain: Trump is already handing a propaganda coup to the enemies of democracy with his land-grabbing bluster. This becomes all the more toxic as he echoes Kremlin arguments by saying he can “understand” why Russia feels threatened by Ukraine’s potential Nato membership – especially ahead of his efforts to force a peace deal on Kyiv that threatens to play straight into Putin’s hands.
True democrats can only look on in horror, fearful at the return of this self-serving president launching an assault on our system’s most fundamental values, while the planet’s dictators watch on with unfettered delight.
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