We are truly horrified by Trump, but a lot of what's happening now had its roots in George W Bush's response to 9/11. This started the forever wars on 'terror', the clamping down of civil liberties and rights, the othering of minorities and the destruction of the rules-based order. ".. The trillions of dollars spent on a forever war: what could that have been spent on? Climate change, universal healthcare, public education. There’s a real opportunity cost to how we chose to spend our time and resources. “If you came down to Earth from another planet and you had to make sense of the fact that the United States spent several trillion dollars chasing a relatively small number of terrorists around a few countries, toppling governments and then fighting insurgencies, when it has huge problems with deindustrialisation, with its education system, with the onset of climate change, you would think this is a country that has gone insane.” #USPol #September11 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/11/september-11-dark-legacy?CMP=share_btn_url