AL Kennedy on Trump and the triumph of the right

The government in the hands of those who want to abolish governments: That’s what we’re seeing in the USA, and that’s what the right-wingers want in Europe too. We can prevent this. A letter from New York.

I write this in the snowy woods of upstate New York, which lie silent, perhaps expectant, and almost as brightly white as the new president’s cabinet. Not far from here, European colonists murdered all the residents of a village called Nanichiestawack. Hundreds were slaughtered the night after a winter corn festival, some burned to death in their homes. The snow was red with blood and flames. But since these facts demonstrate the inappropriate bias of history against white people who just want to do terrible things, I now have to bang my head against a wall until these facts disappear from my brain. Facts and fact-checking are a thing of the past anyway. Liars find them inconvenient – ​​and the liars are now in charge.