According to the AP, Americans travelling overseas now face an unique problem - how to deal with embarrassing questions about the GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump. For example:
“On the whole, the Trump phenomenon is getting equal attention in the U.K. as in the U.S., if not more,” says Matthew Reading-Smith, 29, a native of Michigan who has been living and working in London for five years and was back home last over Thanksgiving. “Wherever I am, whenever someone notices my American accent, they ask me about Donald. I’m being asked to justify the country I come from.” Trump, he says, “strikes fear into the liberal values of Europe” and threatens, in the minds of Europeans, the special transAtlantic relationship that has been a cornerstone of the international order for decades.”
Trump is causing in Europe Trumphobia.
Since Europeans all live in states and Donald Trump is running for the presidency of a government in Washington DC that is not a state, that does not have the full sovereign powers of a state and is not located in any state, it might help them deal more precisely with Trumphobia if they realized that their “special transAtlantic relationship” is indeed special and therefore precarious. Their security to live happily each in their own sovereign state has been guaranteed since the end of the Second World War by the continued sacrifice of the opportunity for social security and wealth by the majority of Americans. This is the deal we Americans have with Washington: most of us work hard and live cheaply so that our tax money can be used by Washington to create wealth in nations around the globe and to protect them with a worldwide military located in hundreds of bases around the world. Donald Trump has stumbled upon an odd idea that by right, if there is any universal justice anywhere, should not appear odd to Europeans: let’s use all of the power of Washington only for Americans.The idea is stupefying to Europeans! America for the Americans? It’s outrageous. It’s revolutionary. It means that Europeans and the rest of the world’s peoples would no longer have a de facto world government located in Washington DC, the loss of which would cause a world cataclysm a hundred times worse than the fall of the Roman Empire. But not to worry. Hillary Clinton is a dyed in the wool internationalist. She knows from her extensive experience in Washington that it is not now and has not been for a long time a national government. She is promising Americans a lot but as president she knows that it would be too great a danger to worldwide security to give us Americans more than just a few scraps.
Daniel McNeill
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