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There is nothing "exceptionally" bad about Donald Trump. Rather, he represents "business as usual" for the empire.
Last weekend, I was a guest speaker as usual at the How the Light Gets In festival, which normally takes place in the village of Hay-on-Wye on the English-Welsh border but the venue this time was in the liberal lands of North London. I'm the token
"noble savage" at this event, the short-sword fighter amid the better or more expensively educated cognoscenti, virtually exclusively wedded to the neo-liberal orthodoxy. I'm usually more noble than savage in the teeth of them - apart from anything, where else would I eat vegan schnitzel for lunch - but this time the savage beast broke free.
The motion was that the Trump presidency represents an
"aberration" - a disruption of the
"rules-based" world order. Speaking in favor was the chairwoman,
Mary Ann Sieghart, an achingly liberal feminist, a first-rate intellectual herself, a fine writer and thinker, who has been a member of the Broadcasting Content Board of Ofcom. She's therefore currently contemplating taking me off both television and radio.
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