As Source Direct draws to a close for 2020, it is time to review one of the darkest, craziest twelve months on record.
2020 US election
“The tyrant king may have fallen, but his forces have only begun to fight. For now, they remain a sizeable fringe, loudly and occasionally violently imposing themselves on the body politic.”
Séamus McGuigan: As the sun begins to set on the Trump era, what’s next for the American far right?
“The centre is broken. Its aggressive, controlling hands squeezed harder and harder until the things being controlled couldn’t take it any more and began to crack. The price is paid by others.”
Robin McAlpine: The centre is broken – control did the the breaking
“Some – generally those who entered 2016 with rather fixed ideas about political reality, and never got over the trauma of those ideas’ defenestration – may look back and struggle to believe that any of it happened at all. Others – the many, many others who have suffered loss, pain and persecution at the hands of the administration – will have no trouble bitterly remembering that it did.”