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Trump, A New Leader Or The New International Danger?

Open Letter to Donald Trump

Date : 20/06/2016

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Anna

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Uploaded on : 20/06/2016
Subject : Journalism

A few days ago, exactly on March 15, an American Journalist, Brandon Stanton, has inevitably caught my attention, and in some way he touched my consciousness, with an open letter sent to the most powerful candidate in the US elections.

Trump, who in his election campaign is conquering people`s hearts obtaining a landslide victory in 7 states out of 11, had to deal with a "Dear Mr. Trump" that, in a few hours, it found more than 2 million likes and as many shares between web and social media.

The centre of the letter is how Trump appeals to racist speeches every day against 1.6 billion Muslims and the danger hidden behind the plaudits those same speeches get.

Praise racism, says Stanton, it is clear in all candidate`s meetings and choosing to stay silent is no longer a political choice but a moral one.

In his "Humans of New York", where the epistle was published, the blogger tells stories of Americans, simple stories that breaks the wall of diversity and show us those individuals in their most authentic form: human beings.

For Stanton, the candidate appeals to violence to obtain personal power and in the interview with Katie Couric, he explains to how dictators` personalities were not very different from his one, and how to persuade the masses comes very easy in an unstable period like this one.

It is not a coincidence that his gesture has sparked an international debate where users from India and other distant countries have posted comments like "Here we can not even figure out how he can take all those votes.'lt;/p>

The charisma is not a guilt and nowadays being a politician is not the easiest of tasks, but the question is: are we in front of a leader with conservative ideas or his "For the Good of the Nation" is the prelude to an historical drama that could be repeated?

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