by Nick Wright
Donald Trump has a remarkable talent for mobilisation. Millions of people in dozens of cities — in the country to which his family migrated, and in the countries from which they migrated — have taken to the streets in protest at his first actions in office.
This is no single issue protest. The millions who march against the ban on Muslims are mobilised as much by his misogyny as his chauvinism.
Theresa May’s rush to be the first foreign government head to meet him, compounded by a hasty invitation to parade down the Mall in a golden coach with our own head of state, smacks of unseemly submission. That Trump reached only for her hand is perhaps all that is left of the famous special relationship.
A tawdry trade deal is the rationale for her rushed visit but the deeper reason lies in the unbridled anxieties the…
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