Back in 2016 before Trump was elected, UK folks were organising solidarity events to GOTV in the US. This was after a summer of Brexit voting+murder of Jo Cox+a consv leadership election that voted in Theresa May (brainchild of the Hostile Env)...
In 2020 I see ppl offering the same capacity to US allies in attempt at resisting Trumps 2nd term. Yes the US is bad- voter suppression, infiltration, militarism+black deaths - but why are we so easily ignoring the pathway to fascism that is being laid out in Britain every day?
How is it that we are reading these headlines https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/30/revealed-no-10-explores-sending-asylum-seekers-to-moldova-morocco-and-papua-new-guinea + not investing in the organising+solidarity work that we desperately need to do here?
Revealed: No 10 explores sending asylum seekers to Moldova, Morocco and Papua New Guinea

Documents seen by Guardian suggest Foreign Office officials are pushing back at idea of processing applications in detention facilities overseas

https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/30/revealed-no-10-explores-sending-asylum-seekers-to-moldova-morocco-and-papua-new-guinea
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