Bo Rothstein (left) resigned from Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government when he discovered its financial backer had made a donation to Trump. The political scientist resigned on Monday however after discovering that Blavatnik had made a $1 million donation to Trump, someone Rothstein describes as "a danger to quality of government and health of democracy". "There are three things historically you can show are dangerous for a democracy's well-being: one is political leaders who do not take a clear stand against against political violence. What is now happening in the United States can be seen as a kind of Africanization of American politics," he concluded. The analyst now returns to the University of Gothenburg where he will continue his research and teaching in the department of political science.

Source: The Local August 28, 2017 14:37 UTC