Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery.
Mr. Trump, as the Prime Minister has said, aims to “break us,” a phrase with historic echoes. He has to now, or others will follow our lead. If he succeeds, then the world will be governed by nothing but force in the end, in trade as in other matters. But if we prevail, then “broad and sunlit uplands” must surely await.
I think a big part of it is the image of wealth and success he’s cultivated. The tacky gold shit everywhere, always wearing a suit unless he’s golfing, and so on. People with no taste see that and find it attractive and want in.
Strip all that away and he’s a used car salesman or blowhard at the end of the bar who won’t shut the fuck up.