Sunday 28 June 2020

What Matters

The “no recourse to public funds” rule has been, and remains, central to the Windrush scandal. But it does not apply if you come from the European Economic Area. Every country in the EEA is overwhelmingly white, and many of them are more or less entirely so.

Like the EU’s leaving of black people to drown in the Mediterranean as they attempt to flee from the slave markets that have been restored by our intervention in Libya, this matters. The name of John Wayne Airport does not matter.

And the American paleoconservatives abominate the name of Woodrow Wilson, a man about whom there is undoubtedly plenty to dislike. This could be a paleocon-neocon moment of the kind that has been due for quite some time. Especially since the paleocons do not like Abraham Lincoln much, either.

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