Peter Hyman

Jan 14, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Peter Hyman

2025 is the year of Donald Trump’s return. It must also be the year of our fightback. But first, let’s step back. We are to blame for Trump. We created him. We gave him, and other far right populists, the space to manoeuvre and the mistakes to exploit. We couldn’t beat someone with 34 felonies, who called all Mexicans rapists, who encouraged an insurrection, was called Hitler by his vice president and deemed unfit for office by almost every senior person who worked for him.

Nov 30, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Peter Hyman |Tony Blair

“People keep telling us that Grimsby is a shithole, but that’s not how we see it. We care about this place. We know we’ve got a future, we’ve got the people, we’ve got the energy, we just need a bit of support.” We were in the bar at Grimsby Town Football club in the spring of 2023 kicking off a workshop, one of several we held in the town before the general election.

Nov 11, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Peter Hyman |Tony Blair

In every conversation I had with Trump supporters at his rallies during the election, one impulse kept surfacing: drain the swamp. It was a powerful feeling that government was broken, that the economy was not delivering the goods, that mainstream politics had failed – and that working people had been left behind.

Nov 9, 2024 | theguardian.com | Peter Hyman

How can anyone vote for someone so… fill in the blank… racist, sexist, unconstitutional, hateful, unhinged? This is the question asked frequently in the UK and here in the States, where I have spent the past three weeks trying to understand the Trump phenomenon. Behind the question is an implied superiority; that we, the clever people, have identified the monster that is Donald Trump, but the deluded masses are too stupid to see it.