Alan Cumming on world leaders not calling out Trump’s violent rhetoric: “In our society right now, hatred & violence has become so normalized & that is because people aren’t saying, ‘that is terrible, stop that, don’t do that.’ […] I just feel like people… our politicians need to have more balls.”

Just watch his performance in *Cabaret* if you want to see what he’s talking about.

It does feel like when a toddler is having a meltdown in a public place and their parent/guardian says “Oh, just leave them, they’ll tire themselves out!” except the toddler is on a combo of pain meds and injected Big Mac grease.

Very well said

I love Alan but this clip shows an incredibly naive understanding of the world, as though institutional power can be curtailed simply with a stern admonishment.

“The left don’t understand power” is an old axiom that Alan’s typifying here. You can’t stop an authoritarian takeover of government by saying “that’s bad, stop doing that” to the mad dictator.

I don’t want to be rude about him ‘cos I love him… but there’s a joke about his hat and his name in there somewhere.

We used to have the media to call out the horrible behavior. Now our media is owned by the super wealthy that are benefiting from the horrible behavior. It’s all about money.