Trump’s travel ban, Baltimore, and the 2025 IWCA Collaborative@CCCC

No. 4, Vol. 6 Winter 2025

Brian Hotson, Editor, CWCR/RCCR


In 2016, at the beginning of the first Trump presidency, reaction to the possibilities of what might lay ahead produced a significant number of pronouncements and warnings. The French paper, Les Echos, for example, wrote of Trump in November 2016: “Racist, populist, male chauvinist, arrogant and unpredictable. We do not know what is most terrifying in the personality of Donald Trump.” We now know that he is a rapist and convicted felon. As I’ve written here before, Trump displays all the markers of a neo-fascist. His latest threats include challenges to the sovereignty of Canada (Tasker, 2024, December 11), as well as not ruling out military invasion of both Greenland (Shamim, 2025, January 9) and Panama (Role, 2024, December 25). Continue reading “Trump’s travel ban, Baltimore, and the 2025 IWCA Collaborative@CCCC”