Published August 15, 2021 at 3:31 pm
Domestic. In connection with the Taliban conquering Afghanistan, Swedish liberals are now raising the issue of their own double standards. They wonder how they themselves would have reacted to the incident if it had been Donald Trump, and not the left-wing politician Joe Biden, who was president of the United States.
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“One thing we should be honest about is that if what was happening in Afghanistan had happened under Trump (not unlikely) we would all have talked about how disgusting the US president was.”
This is how Expressen's former deputy cultural director Jens Liljestrand writes in a post on Twitter that has been widely circulated.
The same thought is put forward by Mats Larsson (also Expressen) in a column published by the left-wing newspaper on Sunday “
” Yes, critical voices are beginning to rise against President Joe Biden. But let's be honest. So far it has been a westerly wind compared to the storm that would have raged if the president was still named Donald Trump, ” writes Mats Larsson.
The liberal columnist describes the return of the Taliban as “a disaster for all the country's women”.
“We can play with the idea that Donald Trump won the election and how it had if all this had happened to him in the White House, this had been seen as the ultimate example of Trump's incompetence, how he abandons allies and just coldly think of America first “, Larsson continues.