The (Real) Emergency is Us
It’s Not the Wall. It’s Not the Shutdown. It’s You and Me.
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7 min readJan 13, 2019
Our lunatic head of state’s favourite new tactic shouldn’t surprise anyone: threatening to declare a state of emergency over his ridiculous wall. Authoritarians are abusers — and abusers love nothing more than creating false, imaginary emergencies with which to justify their escalating abuse. Any abusive relationship is…