The Guardian Australia edition's front page stated that U.S. Republican "bigwig" Mitch McConnell said Trump's second presidential term is the "most dangerous period" since World War II.
U.S. senior Republican senator and former Senate leader Mitch McConnell said that during Donald Trump's second term as president, the world has entered a dangerous period, "with some similarities to the 1930s."
McConnell made these comments during an extensive interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, mainly focusing on tariffs and foreign affairs. The interview was published on Wednesday, as he was preparing to enter the last year of his term. He said, "I think it's the most dangerous period since before World War II. There are some similarities with the 1930s."
This 83-year-old man, who has served as a senator since 1985 and led the Republicans for 18 years until he stepped down earlier this year, did not discuss Trump's government's moves toward "selfishness" in the interview. In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which historians and economists generally believe spread the Great Depression globally. Those who wanted to stay out of European affairs were called "America First." Does that sound familiar? He also avoided discussing his own responsibility for giving Trump such great power.
McConnell publicly criticized the Trump administration's obsession with trade tariffs, comparing it to the United States' isolationist policies in the 1930s, which historians say accelerated the global depression and paved the way for conflict.
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