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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

First Brexit, now Trump and Musk: ignorance is back with a vengeance

Donald Trump in a red Maga cap talks to Elon Musk
Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch SpaceX launch a Starship rocket in Texas in November. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Reuters

‘Never under­estimate the power of ignorance.” I came across this thought while looking for something to watch late at night after the television news on the horrors in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and the Los Angeles fires.

The quote comes from an old episode of my friend Paul Whitehouse’s The Fast Show. It applies, among many other things, to the background to the re-election of the criminal Donald Trump, and the continuing damage being wrought upon itself by a British electorate, 37% of whom voted, in frustration at other economic and social problems, for Brexit. With few exceptions they did not know what they were letting themselves in for; but they do now.

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