from the 10-metre flagpole. On a suffocating day, amid tears of joy and relief, a multi-generational crowd of African-Americans bore witness as the battle flag of an army fighting to preserve slavery was furled and packed off to a nearby museum.
Victories had been achieved in two climactic fights, over the hateful iconography of the Confederacy and the rainbow colours of same-sex marriage. Just as emblematic was success in the legal battle over Obamacare, a legislative trophy beyond the grasp of previous presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. With “God, gays and guns” America reeling, the Democrats looked forward to the upcoming presidential race with preening confidence.
Many of us – most of us – had badly misread the zeitgeist. The coming down of the Confederate flag no more marked the defeat of racism than the election of Barack Obama. The Affordable Care Act, rather than being immutable, would soon come under renewed attack. Evangelical Christians, for whom the rainbow flag was a red rag, were newly galvanised. Seemingly we were seeing the victory of racial and LGBTQI+ identity politics, where marginalised groups achieved singular goals.
Trump benefited from the resurging politics of white resentment, a racial division highlighted by the recent Black Lives Matter protests., in the fourth year of Trump’s renegade presidency, and the US faced another season of racial reckoning. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a video went viral.
For a time we wondered whether this was another Parkland moment, where the massacre in 2018 of 17 students at a high school in Florida produced a cloudburst of activism but failed to change the political weather on gun reform. Yet the anti-racism protests felt more meaningful and profound, and akin to the meteor effect of the #MeToo movement.
Trump staged a melodramatic photo opportunity choreographed with the assistance of federal law enforcement officials, who fired stun grenades and mounted baton charges to disperse a crowd of peaceful protesters from outside the White House. Violently a path was cleared so the president could stride the short distance to a church that had been daubed with Black Lives Matter graffiti, outside which he held aloft his testamental prop, a leather-bound edition of the Bible.
How can the decline be unforeseen ! Predictable as is US decline
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A bloody fantastic read!
“how can you say to your brother?, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look....a plank is in your own eye”
Finally some acknowledgement
US will decline further if brain retarded slow Joe becomes the president with Kamala it's disastrous. China will all over them.
KyleHarrietha Thanks for retweeting this Kyle! 'As the US became the global epicentre of the pandemic, we saw the world take pity on a nation haemorrhaging influence by the hour.' That's quite the statement! NickBryantNY
Sydney Morning Herald blames President Trump for the carnage caused by a virus unleashed by China. Beyond parody.
America was doing great until the virus hit.
That virus thingy has been kinda significant to the world hasn't it? A wee bit?
Running America like a business, where only $$$$ matters, people are just numbers and debt is an addiction.....was never going to work.
Shame the actual records he has smashed make you look ridiculous here.
Now do China. Our relationship with them will never be the same either.
nytimes Trump is desperate to be recorded as a notable historical figure. He will be. He'll be recorded for all time as the president that called COVID19 a hoax, that deaths would not reach 100,000.
It was inevitable, but not 'completely unseen'. Deconstructionists predicted decades ago the decline of the civilised world, and W B Yeats prophesied it earlier in The Second Coming. It was unravelling before our very eyes, but we were too distracted by global greed to see it.
Hasnt started any wars hasnt killed thousands of people. Yeah so evil...
NickBryantNY was the BBC’s Australia correspondent from 2006 to 2013, and has been the BBC’s New York correspondent ever since. This is an augmented extract from his book, When America Stopped Being Great GoodWeekendMag
the world like covid outbreak inUS is adrift with incompetent leader All he is good at is spitting fake news and making crude denigration
We all like him.
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