There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the comparison has been made on magazine covers from America to Germany. Neither is it uncommon for people to say that Trump is planning to usher in an authoritarian state and is a Nazi, neo-Nazi or similar.
After the attempted assassination of Trump last Saturday the people who went in for this sort of thing are in a certain bind. On the one hand they seem to sense that urging on the assassination of a political opponent is not a good look. On the other they can’t just reverse course and declare: ‘Of course it was just hyperbole.’ As a result, the main response among Trump’s biggest critics presently seems to be: ‘He’s still Hitler, but I’m glad he wasn’t killed.’
The tone of Lammy’s anti-Trump statements was more millennial troll than statesman-in-waiting
One of the people who finds himself in this tricky place is our new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.
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