Two people have been arrested after the Brexit architect,British right wing politician Nigel Farage, had a milkshake thrown over him while launching his personal election campaign. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pp7yg0y3po
To back this up with some more data on the example of #Germany:
Violent assaults on politicians have been rising in recent years and are now even higher than in p
Prepandemic (2019) times:
All of these prominent #Republicans linked Donald Trump’s rhetoric to the potential for #PoliticalViolence. Then we saw such #violence on #Jan6, 2021.
Despite the predictability of it — & indeed, the fact that it was predicted — #Trump has wrangled control of the #RepublicanParty again, & he continues & not-at-all-subtly raise the specter of unrest & violence as a political bargaining chip.
Hand-picked by populist #AMLO, many in MX think #Sheinbaum will govern like the him. Pragmatist who put in place a 1st class vaccine strategy during Covid, or: ideologue who followed AMLO’s ambivalent policies -led to 100K dead in MX City? One who understands the importance of data & planning or one who spends little on subway maintenance & lots on$ handouts for sht-term el. boost -seems closer to his half-hearted conservatism in favoring militarization. She must prove... https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/two-issues-that-will-reveal-the-real-claudia-sheinbaum/
Claudia Sheinbaum is loyal to AMLO, & he has weakened judicial independence & democracy, selectively deployed violence while there have been an estimated >30K homicides each year under his rule, Mexico is under attack from "criminal insurgency...
Mexico has its first woman president. But her big win may be a bigger danger to democracy & security.
Max Bergmann, a former State Department official and now program director with the Center for Strategic International Studies, predicts Russian-fueled turbulence at the Democratic national convention in August. He foresees attempts of Russian operatives to infiltrate groups of protestors and attempt to turn protests violent.
He also notes that social media has “become way more of a cesspool than it was in 2016.”