This article explores the various 'horror shows' happening around the world, focusing on the actions of President Trump, the rise of far-right extremism, and the ongoing threat of anti-Semitism. Drawing on personal experiences and news headlines, the author expresses deep concern about the increasing prevalence of hatred and violence.
President Donald Trump speaks during a House Republican members conference meeting in Trump National Doral resort, in Miami, on Jan. 27. A friend texted me on Monday, saying she was sorry about the horror show; she knows I feel all of this evil so deeply. Thanks, I responded. Then asked myself: which particular horror show was she referring to? There are so many options. My first thought was that it must be related to the new U.S.
President, perhaps the power move he had just pulled on Colombia. Mr. Trump’s threat to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on Colombian goods unless the country accepted planeloads of migrants deported from the U.S. had worked. Colombia, bullied by the economic powerhouse, yielded to this demand, accepting thousands of unwanted immigrants. The situation for these people was an even more urgent horror-show candidate. The raids at homes, workplaces, at church. Parents keeping kids home from school, worried they could be arrested. On the tariff-threat front, the looming possibility of Mr. Trump imposing 25-per-cent tariffs on Canada, possibly as early as this week, has a lot of Canadians scared, justifiably. Staying with Mr. Trump, there was the chilling headline that came across my screen during a TV news special on Monday: “President Trump calls for a ‘clean out’ of Gaza, calling it ‘demolition site.’” A clean-out? He was musing about sending (or cleaning out) displaced Gazans, as if they were not actual human beings who longed to return to their homes (or the site of their homes) and rebuild their houses and lives. There was another gutting headline on Monday’s TV-news crawl: “Israel says eight hostages due to be released are dead.” This evidence of evil appeared under a bolder one: “80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation.” At the ceremony in Poland, broadcast live on the BBC, a few remaining elderly survivors “On an icy, windy day, I stood and watched helplessly as little girls from the nearby barrack were marched away, crying and shivering, to the gas chamber,” recalled Tova Friedman, who was six-and-a-half years old when Auschwitz was liberated. In Dublin, at what should have been a respectful Irish commemoration of the same anniversary, security guards forcibly removed attendees who dared to protest as the Irish President used the occasion to scold Israel about Gaza, at length. Any other day, Michael Higgins. Any other occasion. Not this one. My brain still in Europe, could my friend have been referring to what was happening in Germany, orchestrator of the Holocaust? The rise of its far-right, anti-immigrant party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the increasing frequency of anti-Semitic incidents, has many fearing a return to the dark days. So much news, all of it gutting. What had my friend been referring to? I called her up. Turns out, she also had a list. She started with Elon Musk; that straight-armed gesture he had made twice on inauguration day (and the fact that it is being widely described as a “gesture” rather than the Nazi salute she saw with her own eyes). How he had spoken to an AfD rally, praising their ideas and attracting their support. And the way he was treating employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), she added, as large swaths of Los Angeles have been destroyed by wildfire. And Mr. Trump’s firing of Justice Department employees who had been investigating him. I’d like to give the last word to Ms. Friedman, 86. “We have an obligation, not only to remember, which is very, very important. But also to warn and to teach that hatred only begets more hatred. Killing more killing,” she said in her eloquent, searing speech. She expressed alarm at the increase in prejudice and extremism. The world is in crisis, she warned. “All of us must reawaken our collective conscious to transform this violence, anger, hatred and malignancy that has so powerfully gripped our society into a humane and just world, before these terrible, terrible negative forces will destroy us all.
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