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I was thinking about that.
I still reckon Brexit is slow-burn, the changes will be hard to spot, and they will happen over the long term. And it will be easy to blame anything other than Brexit for the bad stuff (the economy, the nasty EU people and their terms of exit, anything and everything really).
Whereas Trump's action are having a more visible impact:
- Some Muslims will have been denied entry/re-entry (perhaps now in effect permanently)
- The two 'controversial' pipelines now look like they are going to be built
- Individual states are now re-assessing their public health care commitments
- The climate change agenda is now being incrementally subject to 'revisionism'
- Global leaders are progressively reacting to American protectionism
- All sorts of weird things are happening with Russia
All of those will arguably affect people more immediately than Brexit.
- Some Muslims will have been denied entry/re-entry (perhaps now in effect permanently)
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And Trumps scores highly on the racist indicator score ... Whereas while some Brexiteers may do too , the idea doesn't
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Don't forget the wonderful idea that is relaxation/reversal of financial system regulatory reforms.
I work for a bank and even I think its a terrible idea. (albeit a proven, stable and risk averse one)
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Totally agree.
It's the boil a frog thing with Brexit. Though India going "meh" on trade deals and Trump going "USA first" is not a good start :/
The UK gov are already blaming the EU for not granting rights for EU nationals... but that's ok, we are the "other" group atm ;)
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JWestland
I'd have said precisely the opposite - Trump is just a new figurehead, but the change is limited to what one person can force through. Brexit represents a fundamental change to our rights, and to how our economy is configured...
You could argue though, that the current stage is more like the "president elect" period - Brexit hasn't yet happened, so no one feels justified in fully attacking it. In the same way that the criticism of Trump has launched in earnest since he came into power.
Alternatively, lack of press might be because our press is owned (in the most part) by Eurosceptic lunatics who support what is happening, whereas Trump has launched a vendetta against the press