BRAIN READE: 'MALDA movement message to Trump gives hope to us all'

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Voters acted to Make America Look Decent Again, says Brian Reade, and the growing rejection of right-wing nationalism is not confined to America

The most beautiful part of that political earthquake in America was seeing the ecstasy on voters’ faces as they won back their ­dignity. The MALDA movement (Make Americans Look Decent Again) sent an overpowering message to the imposter who had held their country’s ­reputation and economy hostage to his own grotesque self-interest: “You failed us, you shamed us, you stole from us.

The fall of Republican strongholds like Texas, the Carolinas and Kansas felt like watching bullets gun down the great MAGA deception. Which was highly apt. They had wanted to livestream the state execution of a dangerous felon and here was their wish being granted in all its gory glory.

This growing rejection of right-wing nationalism is not confined to America. In the past six months voters in Brazil, Hungary, Serbia and Israel have turned their backs on self-styled Populist strongmen – or self-serving grifters…

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