Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States in 2017 on a promise to Make America Great Again, beginning four years in office that changed America and how it was viewed around the world
Trump’s Willing Coup Plotters By Ogaga Ifowodo
Still the question: why was nearly half of the American electorate so willing to surrender their brains to Trump until he led them to vandalise their parliament in a failed coup attempt, thereby diminishing rather than making America great again?
by Ogaga Ifowodo
Jan 11, 2021
As the world gasps and recoils from the tragic spectacle of the storming of the Capitol, the parliament of the United States, just as Vice President Mike Pence presided over a joint sitting to certify the electoral college votes that would affirm Mr Joe Biden as the duly elected 46th president, it must wonder that the horror took so long to occur. And remember that there had been a dress rehearsal for the shameful event in the attempted kidnap and possible murder of Michigan State governor Gretchen Whitmer by the Trump-inspired Wolverine Militiamen a mere three months earlier. And that any of the rallies where Trump stoked his audiences to incendiary frenzy ag
Celebrity posturing about the Capitol Hill riot is a gruesome symptom of our sick politics
Social-media feeds are awash with Hollywood outrage about Trump and his supporters. Yet gesture politics does not equal real change
8 January 2021 • 10:44am
When entertainers such as Pink dominate people s attention, is politics still a serious affair?
Credit: Jim Dyson
Politics has always been about spectacle – especially in America. From Bill Clinton standing in front of Stone Mountain in 1992 announcing his commitment to “law and order” and mass incarceration, to Donald Trump posing outside St John’s Episcopal Church with a Bible last year during the Black Lives Matter riots, putting on a show has become commonplace.