Pauline Hanson sitting in the Senate underneath a burqa

Pauline Hanson’s full burqa and the rise against fascism

LAST WEEK, the bellicose bluster bag was threatening to rain down fire and fury on the Stalinist monarchy of North Korea.

This week Trump supported, not once but twice, the Nazis and white nationalists in Charlottesville.

You might remember these were Nazis, KKK members and other human detritus who marched through the town – some with Swastika flags – chanting “Jews will not replace us“.

One of these “representatives of human dust” – to use Trotsky’s phrase – rammed his car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters, killing one protestor and injuring 19.

Trump supports these murdering fascists and Klansmen. They are an important part of his supporter base. His election has invigorated them, although some of the hard core anti-Semites and Nazis want a more racist version of Trump — for example one without any Jewish family connections.

Their rise – and that of Trump – reflects a return to racial politics, at a time when American capitalism faces economic stagnation, if not decline, for American workers and others.

It is not that different in Australia. On Thursday (17 August) Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa into the Senate. It is part of her campaign to ban the burqa. Maybe, instead, we should be banning those politicians who go fully berko.

 

Read the full article by John Passant at Independent Australia.