For reasons that I can't really explain, I get copied into a hard-line pro-Trump news group letter ....
.... I suspect that I must have posted a comment on something on their site, or in response to an email, as I can't imagine just finding their news letter by chance ... anyway however it happened they have this blogs email address, and so I get the regular mails from them.
I have never cancelled the emails, simply because they offer a rare insight into the mentality and thoughts of the US far right, and in particular to Trumps hardcore support, which given that he's been the dominant figure in US politics for the last 8 years, and will be for the next 4 years is a useful reference and touchstone for this blogger. Now I don't know what will happen to this Trump supporting newsletter in 4 years time, maybe they will transfer their allegiance to another candidate, or maybe just wither on the vine when their hero retires (unless he gets constitution changed and gets another term ... Putin style).
However until that time, I will watch the tone of these newsletters with interest. Now I admit that I usually delete the emails, after a cursory glance. They often deal with intensely internal and arcane US politics, which its hard to understand if your not a native (and probably even if you are), but occasionally, I read them in full. So on the 5th of December 2024, I got the one reproduced in full above, which was posing a question about the USA's links to Europe, and even advocating US withdrawal from Europe.
This is perhaps not that surprising, and I suppose could even be said to be the logical end position of MAGA and the US Right-wings political progression over the last few decades, simply clarified in Donald Trumps ascendency .... a semi-isolationist approach, with spheres of US interest, determined solely by US economic interests, and with no moral concerns.
In fact, just like China .... What do you think?
It's hard to judge Trump until he gets in to office but it looks like the EU and Nato are in for a rough time. The US may find the political landscape very different in 4 years time. Whether they will be happy in their splendid isolation will be the question they have to answer.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough but we have had four years of him in power to take as a guide .... more of the same seems likely. Thank the comment.
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