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RSS FeedsDonald Trump marches to war - in his own country: Burman
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18 august 2017 16:17:55

 
Donald Trump marches to war - in his own country: Burman
(The Star Travel)
 


Is America edging closer to a second civil war? In normal times, this question would be dismissed as absurd. But these are no longer normal times.After all, this was the week when, as scholar David Rothkopf put it in The Washington Post, “Donald Trump gave the most disgusting public performance in the history of the American presidency.”In doing so, the 45th president of the United States, already suspected of being a Russian stooge, revealed himself with extraordinary clarity as an apologist for white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.But this past week also revealed more. We saw the real danger of Trump’s presidency. By reminding us of his lifetime pattern of fuelling racist divisions to achieve his goals, we saw what Trump will truly risk to ensure his personal survival.So this question — of whether the U.S. is hurtling toward catastrophic internal conflict as a result — is now being taken seriously by serious people.In an article in this week’s New Yorker — titled “Is America headed for a new kind of civil war?” — journalist Robin Wright asks a corollary question: “How fragile is the Union, our republic, and a country that has long been considered the world’s most stable democracy? The dangers are now bigger than the collective episodes of violence.”She quotes the Southern Poverty Law Center: “The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century.”Last March, Foreign Policy magazine asked several national security experts to evaluate the risks of a second civil war. The consensus number was about 30 per cent, although some put it as high as 60 per cent or even 95 per cent.Keith Mines was one of those experts. With a career in the U.S. army, State Department and the United Nations, Mines estimated the U.S. faces a 60 per cent chance of civil war over the next 10 to 15 years.He cited five factors ...


 
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