Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
She has refused to acknowledge Japan’s war crimes during WW2 and wrote the preface for a book promoting Hitler’s election strategy.
Anti LGBTQ sentiment is undoubtedly not uncommon around the world. I live in the West and it was not even 15 years ago that insinuating homosexuality was a way men insulted each other and there are many that still do. If anything it’s gradually getting worse here, with more and more countries electing far right governments. We are a long way from acceptance.
But Takaichi is more than your everyday mild bigot.