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The Young Americans: Lessons from the US 
LOUISE RAW reports back from the United States on the dystopian future its ruling tycoons have planned for us – and our need to take a stand against the far right in Britain now
Moronic billionaire Elon Musk is shown during a live video link, as Alice Weidel, the far-right AfD candidate for chancellor takes to the stage, during the AfD's election campaign kick-off, in Halle, Germany, January 25, 2025

I WAS in Wisconsin, in America’s Midwest, the week before the presidential inauguration, to join a panel of economists and social scientists looking ahead at what the next four years might bring.   

We might call the purpose “Trump Preparedness” — an attempt to brace ourselves for what could be coming. 

I was there to add a British perspective on what only one side — ours — tends to still call the “special relationship.”

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