Trump and Nigel Farage’s popularity is a sure sign that common decency for human life has all but disappeared

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Both Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have colluded in denigrating life to the level of white and black and rich and poor.

Trump began his second term campaign with a call to send non-whites, non-Christians, and anybody else he decides is an undesirable back to from whence they came. I believe his encouragement of the crowd to chant, “send them back” at a recent rally merely serves to incite extremists giving them a free hand to kill and maim innocent people at will.

The blood on Trump’s hands will not wash off this time. He will not be exonerated by his party or the passage of time. He has turned America, once a great country, into a deeply divided, bigoted quagmire of seething hatred.

His cohort in Britain, Farage, has called his vile rhetoric “genius”. This statement was made before the recent murders in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, of at least 29 innocent Americans. I wonder if Farage feels the same now. Does his condoning of Trump’s views and actions seem so “genius” now?

I wonder if Trump will feel as confident in reiterating the same rhetoric we’re used to at his next rally? Is he about to apologise to the sensible, caring Americans for his inflammatory mandate which only serves to divide the country and to give extremists licence to kill and maim at will?

The American people are being let down by a president who is incapable of having clear constructive thoughts. They’re also being failed by an administration that wants to fight and bully every country and organisation that disagrees with Trump’s plans.

To label Trump as, “the leader of the free world” is just nonsense. Neither he, nor America, could lead a thirsty man to water, let alone the globe. Just look at what a mess he is making trying to bring China to heel. Or pulling out of various climate agreements and Afghanistan. Utter short-sighted lunacy. The people that suffer the most are those he is trying to remove from America.

But, unfortunately, we have become used to his unscripted speeches and actions. It seems Trump and Farage are cast from the same mould and both should be ostracised by their respective countries. They have no place in the governance of countries or people’s futures.

Keith Poole
Basingstoke

Why can’t those affected by mass shootings sue the manufacturer and suppliers of the weapons?

Paul Sheldon
Baildon

These are not normal times

Over the decades, moderates, centrists, left-of-centrists and even those further left have massively underestimated what the right will do to gain and keep power.

This is problematic enough in “normal” times. These are not normal times.

Decent folk have to stop being shocked at the behaviour of the extreme right wing and also stop doing politics as normal.

On this side of the pond the solution is obvious. The so-called opposition party needs to ditch possibly the worst leader in its history and everyone with a conscience needs to act as one against Steve Bannon-supported Boris Johnson and start making deals like the one that won the Brecon by-election last week.

In the US, the Democrats must stop party-politicking like it’s 1999 and get behind one candidate, even if it’s not their political wet dream.

The bodies from the two recent shootings can certainly be piled up on Trump’s moral lawn. However, if they don’t do what is needed to defeat him, Democrats must hang their heads in shame after 2020 while four, and possibly more, years of white nationalist terror, babies in cages and more, blight America’s history.

Amanda Baker
Edinburgh

Cannabis must be decriminalised

I voted for Brexit, but I will be voting for the Liberal Democrats at the next election. Not because I want to stay in Europe, but because of their cannabis reform laws. I suffer from Tourette’s Syndrome, PTSD and chronic pain. Cannabis is the most effective medicine at stopping my tic-induced seizures, dealing with my pain and helping me sleep due to the PTSD.

It blows my mind that I am labelled a criminal for choosing my own healing methods. I have many friends who smoke cannabis and none of them are bad people and none of them deserve to be criminalised whether medically or recreationally.

Jimmy Finch
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Just cancel Brexit

So, we’re stuck on how to proceed. Has everyone totally forgotten that a court decided we would be able to ask to cancel the whole thing at any time before the deadline? How about doing that, taking a few years to sort the mess out, then starting again.

Elizabeth Pullan
Boxgrove