1. TRUMP, A NEW LEADER OR THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DANGER?
Anna Di Donato
A few days ago, exactly on March 15, an American Journalist, Brandon Stanton, has
inevitably caught my attention, and in some way he touched my consciousness, with
an open letter sent to the most powerful candidate in the US elections.
Trump, who in his election campaign is conquering people's hearts obtaining a
landslide victory in 7 states out of 11, had to deal with a "Dear Mr. Trump" that, in a
few hours, it found more than 2 million likes and as many shares between web and
social media.
The centre of the letter is how Trump appeals to racist speeches every day against 1.6
billion Muslims and the danger hidden behind the plaudits those same speeches get.
Praise racism, says Stanton, it is clear in all candidate's meetings and choosing to stay
silent is no longer a political choice but a moral one.
In his "Humans of New York", where the epistle was published, the blogger tells
stories of Americans, simple stories that breaks the wall of diversity and show us
those individuals in their most authentic form: human beings.
For Stanton, the candidate appeals to violence to obtain personal power and in the
interview with Katie Couric, he explains to how dictators' personalities were not very
different from his one, and how to persuade the masses comes very easy in an
unstable period like this one.
It is not a coincidence that his gesture has sparked an international debate where users
from India and other distant countries have posted comments like "Here we can not
even figure out how he can take all those votes."
The charisma is not a guilt and nowadays being a politician is not the easiest of tasks,
but the question is: are we in front of a leader with conservative ideas or his "For the
Good of the Nation" is the prelude to an historical drama that could be repeated?