Burning Down the House: the far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil
Foreign Policy In Focus
Far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil are laying bare their nihilistic roots and full destructive potential.
By John Feffer, September 4, 2019
As August wound down, the populist troika of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Jair Bolsonaro proved once again that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil would be better off with no leaders rather than the dubious characters that currently pretend to govern these countries.
In all three cases, these leaders escalated their nationally destructive policies as summer wound down...They are only interested in doing as much damage as they can before they are ultimately dragged out of office.
Bolstonaro, at least, is only interested in trashing a rainforest (albeit a large one). Boris Johnson is content to trash a country (albeit a rich one). Donald Trump, with that ego of his, aspires to trash an entire planet. Yes, all three will eventually flame out. But not before they’ve scorched the earth clean....The philosophy of “things have to get worse before they get better” has sometimes worked out in the past. But that’s the past.
Unless we stop him, we’ll be rooting around in the post-Trump ashes in vain for the pieces. The house will be gone. And there will be nothing we can salvage to rebuild it.
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