Country aims to claw back its place in global affairs after it lost so much standing during the Trump years
An American flag flies near Congress in Washington, DC, the US. Picture: EPA/SHAWN THEW
But many Americans still see their country as the best country to live in and the world’s greatest democracy. Yet African Americans and indigenous Americans have never been fully accorded the rights conferred on white Americans. Not only does Texas prevent people from making intensely personal choices about their bodies and for their families, but like other red states it has been making it difficult for people, especially of colour, to be able to ensure their hard-fought rights are recognised by casting their vote.
As with Trump’s US, anti-immigrant sentiment has been rising in SA. Here it festers from the right, the centre and the pseudo-left, with the government endorsing this with moves to expel hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and new xenophobic labour laws in the offing. Unlike those in Brazil, the antidemocratic forces here are not trailing in the wake of Trump. Antidemocratic forces in SA have cynically misused nationalism and anticolonialism to justify their grim politics. Ironically, these forces may have appreciated that Trump railed against the international system the US has built.
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