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Severely ill, and denied medical care, he died 11 years later aged just 46. Today, Italy’s leader is Giorgia Meloni of the Brothers of Italy party, which Mussolini’s granddaughter, Rachelle, considers too right-wing.
I hope I live to see that day. But for now, it’s a political horror show. Trump, super-narcissist and felon, has already pardoned violent white supremacists. What do you think they will do next? He wants to deny the birthright of US-born babies, outlaw equality measures, nail all those who oppose him, intimidate the legal system and state authorities, destabilise the world, grab land, and clear out Mexicans at the border as if they are vermin despoiling “clean” America.
Millions of Americans are manifestly dismayed and enraged. They will resist the man and his acolytes. Some of his executive orders are already facing legal challenges; protesters have come out. Michelle Obama was a no-show at the inauguration.
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Over the next four years Trump will radicalise and fragment America. How does the world deal with the morbid symptom? More pertinently, how do we?
Amoral capitalists
Many influential and ordinary people in the UK remain steadfastly pro-Trump. Twice already on TV shows, fellow panellists have told me off for hating Trump. One waxed lyrical about the “special relationship” and the President’s “star quality”. Most Britons, thankfully, are not mindlessly loyal. Yes, Starmer will have to find a way to do business with the President. But we are not, as Trump, and his half-demon, half-sprite bestie Musk seem to believe, a satellite US state.
Right-wingers were, as ever, outraged; Labour’s frontbench urged Khan to tone down his words. They forget that during his last presidency, Trump assailed London’s elected mayor.
Moving forward
Labour needs to heal our severed relationship with the EU. A Statista poll last year found that 55 per cent of Britons thought it was wrong to leave the EU. Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, at last moving on from hijinx to serious politics, has accused the Government of an “act of economic negligence”, adding: “It is alarming that the Government is happy to negotiate with China but won’t even look at a better trading arrangement with our closest neighbours in Europe.”
A conversation I had this week
After the publication of my column investigating how Muslims of Pakistani heritage feel about the grooming gangs, several individuals and Muslim organisations have contacted me. Most thanked this paper for publishing views that go beyond simple binaries.
And, finally and most telling, a call from an imam who said: “I thought you with your English husband were one of them. But you are one of us.” Er, no. I am one of me, sir. That’s why I can think and write honestly and freely.
Yasmin’s pick: Ex-Wife (Faber)The middle-class heroine is good at her job, cool, beautiful, fashionable, reckless, desired by many. But she wants him back. Even though he hit her, repeatedly rejects her, was cruelly unmoved by the death of their baby.
All this was accepted as the norm, by women of all classes. Not any more, though it does happen. Sometimes it helps to remember how bad the bad old days were.
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