Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of hypocrisy after claiming that the UK and Europe are “trampling democracy”.
In a post on the Substack blogging platform, the US state department accused governments of “weaponising political institutions” to turn the continent into a “hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance”. The piece broadly criticises the so-called ‘global liberal project’ but highlights the UK and Germany in particular.
