The day we hoped never to see is here. Trump’s inauguration seems set to presage a bonfire of all that many of us hold dear – all that has been achieved since 2008 under Obama and Biden. A return to medieval values. Yet hope must survive.
Are there any words for today’s reality? Nobody says it better than Claire Jones. Read her brilliant piece on the Second Coming in West England Bylines.
‘Things that may be untrue: Elon Musk is acting from purely financial motives; Trump’s team will collapse, democracy will return, meanwhile, it’s political business as usual. These assumptions are an opiate cocktail of wishful thinking, complacency and habit.‘
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