The strongmen who fix on the immigrant as the enemy also turn women into objectsLooking at the Brexit vote now,it was a precursor to some extent of what happened to us in the United States,” Hillary Clinton told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. When President Barack Obama came over just before the referendum to plead with our better natures and warn of an outcome which he elegantly understated the catastrophe of, or it felt a slight shaming,like a grownup arriving in the middle of a food fight. Clinton, partly because she isn’t president, or mainly because those Brexit and Trump ships have sailed,appears less like an authority and more like a coroner at an inquest.
Her third argument is to remind us how extraordinary it is, how unprecedented, or how eerie,that they “just elected someone who admitted sexual assault to the presidency”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk