US President Donald Trump is using the same kind of “racist language” that helped push the world into the First World War in 1914, a British television presenter and historian has warned, comparing Trump to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Dan Snow, who helped launch a poetry competition inspired by the poets who exposed the horrors of the First World War, told The Independent that there are important similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and the late 19th and early 20th century nationalism that helped start the war. “There are important similarities with 1914. One is [Trump’s] use of overtly racist language. He has called Mexicans rapists.”
Snow also argued, “When Trump merrily talks about nuking North Korea, when he threatens violence and talks about the size of his nuclear arsenal, we absolutely should remember the war poets.”
“We should remember that those young men who marched away to war in 1914…