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Readers’ comments on Trump 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-01
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This will fail in Argentina as it will in the US because it’s as economically illiterate as it is morally repugnant. In the aftermath in both countries, the left needs to close down the anti-democracy organisations that are spearheading Project 2025. –BCcantsignin
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Argentinians voted for ‘change’ and they are certainly getting it. What happens at the next election? It is clear that the old politics in Argentina (a resource-rich country lurching from crisis to crisis) offered little to the electorate (more of the same).
If President Javier Milei is the answer, then perhaps Argentinians are asking the wrong question. The other question to answer is: who gains from his election? Certainly not most Argentinians. –Mike Parr
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A treaty between the US and Denmark was ratified in 1917 when Denmark, under pressure from the US, sold the now US Virgin Islands to America. That treaty includes an agreement that the US will make no demands on other Danish territories, including Greenland. Will Donald Trump be like Vladimir Putin, who cannot stick to a treaty? –Vibeke Dunleath
Democracy is dead and buried. –Jonathan Williams
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Elon Musk only has any power to sway opinions if we let him. –Karen Dowman
He's an evil megalomaniac and we must do all we can to oppose him. –Tez
Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are a really dangerous combination of right-wing extremists in my opinion. –Joan Keane
Musk does have the ability to sway British politics. Money can buy people, and politicians are easier bought than most. –Mark Ruark
My answer is, unfortunately, yes. I have witnessed how dangerous the media can be; two former colleagues, both well-educated, intelligent women, were previously able to filter information but gradually started to believe what they were reading without question. One moved to the US and started to share abortion misinformation online and claimed all Democrats were murderers as a result. –Julie Harding
We must stop him from having the power to change our culture. How do such people achieve such gross wealth? They should be taxed so the government can fund public society services to benefit all. –Peter Foreman
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While I don’t disagree with much of your analysis, as a retired social worker who was sacked twice for whistle-blowing (in 1986 and 2019) I can tell you that organised child abuse is alive and well – there are always efforts to cover up. Keep up the good work. –Michael Sira-Parfitt
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