Similarities between Donald Trump's mob in Washington and Nicola Sturgeon's nationalist mob in Scotland

 The SNP is becoming like Trump. Perhaps we should not be surprised as the universal effect of hate to become like that which you hate.

I as an anti-nationalist have had the most abusively Trumpish responses from nationalists to expressions of opinions different from theirs. Most are obscene; many are illiterate; and a good many exhibit a gloating triumphalism due to the writer's assumption that Sturgeon is creating something close to a one-party state in Scotland.
The most recent, was a commentator who said that after independence "there'll be a lamppost waiting for you, sooner rather than later." If this is not Scottish Trumpism I do not know what is.
The essential issue here is the rule of law. I believe its future in Scotland is no longer guaranteed. We cannot take civilisation for granted. We need to do something serious about that. If you want to understand the background and context of this (hitherto obscure) issue, you could do a lot worse than get yourself a copy of "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020)
It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow.
The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II.
This book ought to sit on the desks of all important political commentators because it is an as yet untold story, but a very, very important one if the British state is to survive with the ideals it has embraced about civic government roughly since the Act of Union, of which the main one is the rule of law. Now is the time for all good folk to come to the aid of the country and of course democracy. Without the rule of law, that is a dead letter.
Details of the book (and Kindle) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp...