What must people in this country have felt in the thirties when, looking south across the channel, they saw Germany descending into fascism? Can we now feel something similar when we look to the west across the Atlantic? Hyperbole aside, I’m beginning to fear we can. Then as now, we are watching a neighbour descend into intolerance and reactionism, headed by a charismatic but very dangerous leader. The difference is, whereas Germany was then still recovering from the great depression, America is the most powerful nation on earth. A complete racist nutter, surrounded genuine by neo-nazis, has control of the world’s biggest army and it’s most important economy. I know I can write silly things on here; I know I can get melodramatic and exaggerate; but this danger is real, and I am now very, very scared.