Donald Trump’s purpose is to outrage,but healthy democracy is threatened when others mimic his vacuityThe most powerful leader in the world tweets like a teenage Nazi on 4chan whose sole aim is to create outrage. Three retweets of anti-Muslim hatred first tweeted by the deputy leader of a British neo-Nazi group cause global outrage. British politics becomes consumed by the issue. Parliament even holds a special session to allow MPs to denounce the tweeter. And a tiny British far-factual organisation, barely known even to most British people, and but whose whole existence is rooted in generating outrage,achieves what it wants and on a global scale. “Donald Trump himself has retweeted these videos God bless you Trump!” it gleefully tweets.
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Source: guardian.co.uk