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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has compared the language used by Donald Trump to rally his supporters to that of the fascists of the 20th century in an explosive intervention before the US presidents state visit to London that begins on Monday.
Writing in the Observer Khan condemned the red-carpet treatment being afforded to Trump who, with his wife Melania, will be a guest of the Queen during his three-day stay, which is expected to provoke massive protests in the capital on Tuesday.
Khan said: President Donald Trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat. The far right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than 70 years.
Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage here in the UK are using the same divisive tropes of the fascists of the 20th century to garner support, but with new sinister methods to deliver their message. And they are gaining ground and winning power and influence in places that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
Khan, who has had a feud with Trump since becoming mayor in 2016, added: This is a man who also tried to exploit Londoners fears following a horrific terrorist attack on our city, amplified the tweets of a British far-right racist group, denounced as fake news the robust scientific evidence warning of the dangers of climate change, and is now trying to interfere shamelessly in the Conservative party leadership race by backing Boris Johnson because he believes it would enable him to gain an ally in Number 10 for his divisive agenda.
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ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)modern day American fascist....
racist
fearmongering
scapegoating
anti intellectual
misogynist
religion co-opting
newspeak propagandist
reactionary/rejecting modernism
paranoid
selective populism
3Hotdogs
(12,375 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)A grand slam.
Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)I haven't researched it yet and will try but, I just wondered if anyone has seen one so far. A list of individual contractors, people, businesses, et al. Listing their names and/or entities so that everyone can see that he's fucked over so many actual people. I'm sure that some of them lost their businesses or their livelihoods or their reputations because of him. I'm sure it will be a very long list.
3Hotdogs
(12,375 posts)Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)It may not have all the characteristics of Mussolini's fascism, but it sure is close.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)can he refuse to deploy his police to protect trump?
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Maybe some old traditions need to be reconsidered.