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Embracing the far right, Trump stains a history of democratic ideals
One of my cherished possessions, which I cart with me around the world, is a tattered paperback copy of the Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches.
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Sprinkled among the fine and idealistic speeches in my book, like granules of arsenic, are the words of fascists and racists. Nazis Adolf Hitler ("my patience is now at an end" ) and Reinhard Heydrich ("the final solution" ), the British fascist Oswald Mosley ("England again dares to be great" ), and, later, the Conservative MP Enoch Powell ("the River Tiber foaming with much blood" ).
Reading them now, a question comes to mind: did American soldiers fight and die on the beaches of Normandy so their president could promote fascism?
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Mr Trump amplified the fascism of Britain First, sending its message booming and bouncing around the world. It is a message which continues where Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, left off. His huge rally at London's Earl's Court in July 1939 was advertised using the slogan Britain First and he uttered it himself in his speech that night, a speech in which he also defended Hitler and attacked the "corrupt interest of Jewish finance".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42197006
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Sprinkled among the fine and idealistic speeches in my book, like granules of arsenic, are the words of fascists and racists. Nazis Adolf Hitler ("my patience is now at an end" ) and Reinhard Heydrich ("the final solution" ), the British fascist Oswald Mosley ("England again dares to be great" ), and, later, the Conservative MP Enoch Powell ("the River Tiber foaming with much blood" ).
Reading them now, a question comes to mind: did American soldiers fight and die on the beaches of Normandy so their president could promote fascism?
...
Mr Trump amplified the fascism of Britain First, sending its message booming and bouncing around the world. It is a message which continues where Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, left off. His huge rally at London's Earl's Court in July 1939 was advertised using the slogan Britain First and he uttered it himself in his speech that night, a speech in which he also defended Hitler and attacked the "corrupt interest of Jewish finance".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42197006
Op-eds from BBC correspondents are pretty rare - this is not written just to fill a regular space. This is from the heart.
