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I think you're overstating the case. I agree that he overestimated the damage Brexit would cause, and has continued to do so. The bit about Donald Trump is ve
by gjm11 5y ago
I think you're overstating the case.
I agree that he overestimated the damage Brexit would cause, and has continued to do so.
The bit about Donald Trump is very misleading. The quotation is from a paragraph that begins "As for my worst-case nightmare scenario?". He was not claiming that in the actual world as it was then travelling to the US was like travelling to Germany in 1933. Trump becoming a totalitarian dictator was his worst-case nightmare scenario, not a prediction of what was definitely (or even likely) going to happen.
I am not sure what in what he said about 2018 you consider to have been contradicted by reality. (Expressed overdramatically, sure.) I think you can make a pretty good case for all of Balsonaro, Modi, Duterte, Erdogan as neo-fascist demagogues, with allowance for a bit of hyperbole. I shall refrain from trying to assess Trump on that score. I'm not sure what he was so cross about in Italy. His description of the UK situation is pretty much right.