I was watching that immoral, semi-lucid, self-serving pillock Donald Trump last week as he vaingloriously trumpeted his declaration of a state of emergency, all over the funding for his bloody wall. It made my flesh creep - the man is so sodding ghastly. However in amongst the gruesome gloating and gurning he made a point that the liberal left has to get to grips with. Without a border you don't have a country. And the further point is this - those of us who believe in the nation state as the viable vehicle for the promotion of democracy have to account for this simple truth. It is an agonising exercise wrangling with this equation. The truly scary thing about Trump is that none of this causes him the slightest concern. Trump is beyond redemption but the rest of us cannot dismiss an inconvenient truth just because he is the man who voices it.
Don't get me started on Mike Pence. A European audienec received his mealy-mouthed apologia for what we must politely call Trumpism, in stony silence. This is not rude - it is appropriate. Sometimes humiliation is the only antidote to bullies.
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