I gave my friends hats which said ‘Make America Hate Again’. That’s what Trump is trying to do

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Back in my youth we were taught in Latin class about the problems faced by Rome because of neighbouring wetlands known as the Pontine Marshes. Although Romans did not fully understand how malaria infected humans, they connected the marshes with illness and death. Their combined engineering skills failed to drain the marshes and it was only in the 1920s that Mussolini made reclamation of the marshes his successful national prestige project. I thought of the Pontine Marshes when Donald Trump promised American voters that he was going to “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC. It was hard to see how...