Trump 2.0. The Meltdown Continues
The shocking US election result will create a new world order – and launch a fresh wave of Trump wannabes
American voters have done a terrible and unforgivable thing this week. We should not flinch from saying they have turned away from the shared ethos and rules that have shaped the world, generally for the better, since 1945.
Other democracies, including Britain, need to understand what is at stake. The challenges facing the international order are only the start of it.
If we want to avoid being overwhelmed by similar forces, leaving us even more vulnerable to hostile autocracies such as Russia, we need to be proactive, not passive, about them. Without that, we may find ourselves governed from Clacton-a-Lago.
For Britain, which has clung for so long to illusion and to lazy imitation of the US, this is a moment of particularly difficult choices at all levels. Keir Starmer, his popularity already slipping, will nevertheless lose more than he gains by acting, as he did in the Commons today, as though Trump offers continuity. The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, was right to challenge him over Ukraine and a possible trade war. Starmer needs to face these facts, not duck them.
But there is something far larger involved for Britain. This country clings to the belief that it enjoys a special relationship with the USYet where, after 5 November 2024, is the commonality? What do our largely secular societies truly have in common with a nation whose religiosity drives it to outlaw women’s reproductive rights and, in some cases, to see Trump as a leader sent by God to save the US from socialism?
Since Trump’s re-election threatens most Europeans, perhaps Britain should move closer to Europe? It is a legitimate question, and not to be dismissed merely because Brexit makes it difficult, though it does.
There is one small possible consolation from Trump’s lamentable re-election: the event is so shocking that it may finally help to nudge the British into seeing Americans as different and ourselves as we really are, no longer reliant on the crutch of the supposed special relationship
Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist
Source: http://fuelinjectedmoose.blogspot.com/2024/11/trump-20-meltdown-continues.html
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