At his concert last night in Manchester, Bruce Springsteen did not mince his words. He told the English crowd:
‘In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.’
He went on to say: ‘In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.
‘In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers.
‘They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society.
‘They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands.
‘They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centres and prisons. This is all happening now.
‘A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.
‘The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and regardless of its faults is a great country with a great people. So we’ll survive this moment. Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, ‘In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’ Let’s pray.’
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