2016-06-04

The USexit campaign

“Our jobs are being sucked away from our country, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore, folks,”
— Donald Trump quoted in “Experts Warn of Backlash in Donald Trump’s China Trade Policies”,  The New York Times (2 May 2016)

There are some people in the USA who are intrigued by the Brexit referendum (jobs are being sucked away from the UK, and we’re going to end it now) and see parallels between Brexit with the anti-foreign (USexit?) comments of the Donald Trump (and of Bernie Sanders).

An interesting collection of comments (“letters”) about Brexit,  from Europeans who are not British-born, appeared in The Guardian: I particularly liked a cartoon by Riad Sattouf from France, and a letter in the same article (a couple of contributions down) from Slovenian-born Slavoj Žižek with a wonderful line — relevant to the US primaries — "Socialist nationalism is not the right way to fight the threat of national socialism." 

From The Encyclopaedia Brittanica entry on “National Socialism”, last updated 2016-03-22:

In almost every respect it was an anti-intellectual and atheoretical movement, emphasizing the will of the charismatic dictator as the sole source of inspiration of a people and a nation …

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