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Nationalism on the March -- Christina Pagel
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/nationalism-on-the-marchA campaign of coercion and violence in the US is escalating. Plus British leader reactions to the far right rally held this weekend in London.
In just nine months, Trump’s second administration has launched at least 230 explicitly nationalistic or anti-immigrant actions. Three-quarters of them have taken place since June. What began in January as a flurry of executive orders has, by autumn, grown into an escalating campaign of coercion and violence.
Early in the second term, Trump laid the groundwork with a flurry of executive orders which tightened the borders, intensified visa vetting, cut immigrant access to state support, and prioritised English as the only language of the state.
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Elon Musk has been agitating for civil war and violence across European liberal democracies ever since he bought Twitter. He has turned his enormous megaphone on the UK. This weekend, Musk addressed Tommy Robinson’s far-right rally in London, where Musk called for the UK government to be overthrown and warned of coming violence. His words have been condemned by the Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and (eventually) Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But Reform Leader Nigel Farage has said Musk’s comments “left a degree of ambiguity”. Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch has said nothing. Today on X, she leaned into the Republican talking points around Charlie Kirk, attacking the ‘left’ and our supposed ‘erosion’ of free speech. America is in a dangerous, increasingly violent, place and the darkness is coming here. I fear for what this means. Can we hold the line?
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Early in the second term, Trump laid the groundwork with a flurry of executive orders which tightened the borders, intensified visa vetting, cut immigrant access to state support, and prioritised English as the only language of the state.
. . .
Elon Musk has been agitating for civil war and violence across European liberal democracies ever since he bought Twitter. He has turned his enormous megaphone on the UK. This weekend, Musk addressed Tommy Robinson’s far-right rally in London, where Musk called for the UK government to be overthrown and warned of coming violence. His words have been condemned by the Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and (eventually) Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But Reform Leader Nigel Farage has said Musk’s comments “left a degree of ambiguity”. Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch has said nothing. Today on X, she leaned into the Republican talking points around Charlie Kirk, attacking the ‘left’ and our supposed ‘erosion’ of free speech. America is in a dangerous, increasingly violent, place and the darkness is coming here. I fear for what this means. Can we hold the line?
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