Insightful article by Timothy Snyder, American historian and author. Just a couple of excerpts:
When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. We will have trouble questioning lies later if we accept them when offered, because that would challenge our own sense of ourselves as not being idiots.
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The demand for fentanyl is American, including inside the Trump White House itself. The people who live at the epicenters of the addiction crisis tend to vote Republican; without them, Trump would never have become president in the first place. Trump and Vance are attuned to the opioid issue, in the sense that they see the suffering as a political resource, as a wellspring of misery that can be directed against an enemy of choice … This has now become our foreign policy. We are blaming someone else for our problems, and flailing for ever more nonsensical stories: like that Canada is to blame…
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The amount of fentanyl that passes from Canada to the United States is about 0.2% of the total – not two percent, zero point two percent … the real problem at the border is the illegal smuggling of American guns into Canada.
Blame Canada - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about...