Your humanity, Charlie, was not in question - though Trump's certainly is. It was the character and reality of your fears that were at issue. I'm not sure what your restaurant encounter has to do with my point, but, for the record, I do know of the subjects of whom we speak. I've worked with and for asylum seekers and personally pledged myself for one, a neighbour in an English city. He was a Muslim, law abiding, sincere and utterly without anything - except good intentions - and would have been an ideal victim in Trumpist sights. He was a victim, first, of islamisist terror - to the loss of his wife and children - and then, shamefully, of the xenophobic paramoia of the British state and of the reactions of a poisoned British public. Exactly the polity that exults in the isolationist insanity of Brexit and sounds all too familiar in the ranks of Trump's followers.
I'll say it again - 1984, The Plot Against America and Quake, Quake, Quake - we read it there, there and there first.
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