This sense of grievance and solidarity gave voice to protests in Toronto, Berlin, London and other Western cities. “People all over the world understand that their own fights for human rights, for equality and fairness, will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where ‘I have a dream’ is a real and universal political program,” Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to Washington and the chairman of the Munich Security Conference, told the New Yorker. Crazy, but he went on – “Let’s hope the demonstrations all over the world will help remind Washington that US soft power is a unique asset, setting America apart from other great powers — from China, Russia, and even from Europe. It would be tragic if the Trump administration turned a huge opportunity for the US into a moral abdication.” Soft Power, and what the hell is that when it’s at home??
Western Culture under Attack Part 19
