Public enemy? Mark Laskin, a British American Friend, on polarisation
‘I am not sure words of healing or gestures of cross-party unity will be enough.’
Ever since Machiavelli wrote The Prince in the early sixteenth century, world leaders have recognised that having an external enemy has united populations in fear and resentment. It binds them against a perceived threat.
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