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The far right is getting far too comfortable... [View all]
I think the author is being rather generous to the far right and their ‘genuine eschewing’ of Nazism, fascism and explicitly racial politics… I think they know that they had to move to a different strategy if they wanted greater success but that does not mean that underneath the ‘respectability’ veneer they are still not racist fuckers.
Other than that level of generosity to their current ‘belief system’ the premise behind this analysis makes sense… After all Farage is literally all over the airwaves with the election coming up. Mainstreaming far right nasty day after day. As Tommy Robison said in 2018 while addressing a crowd of thousands in London… ‘We couldn’t have done this 3 years ago. We couldn’t have done this 4 years ago. We’re now mainstream. The public support us’
If we get Boris on Thursday they are going to be further emboldened. Oh goody!!
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