UK politics have been a mess for years. Tony Blair's remora like attraction to The W(orst POTUS) Ever has led to a line of increasingly more buffoonish Governments, which most Americans know little about because of the infatuation with the Royal Family.
Of course, besides being buffoons the hard-rightwing Prime Ministers have also flirted with fascism, as we enter an era where the Grandparents and Great-grandparents of conservatives are no longer around to explain Nazis were the bad guys.
The Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza has served as another catalyst to excite bloodthirsty fascists in the US, UK, and Europe as crackdowns on Pro-Palestinian protests are spearheaded by powerful conservatives.
But, in the UK former Home Secretary Suella Braverman flipped to the next page in the well-worn fascist playbook and used a protest as a vehicle to incite a mob of Neo-Nazis and did this on Armistice Day in England. Violent Rightwing Paramilities have been, a key component of the Rise of Fascism throughout history.
This was far from her first Fash adjacent outrage from Braverman who had been "sacked" by 50-Day PM Liz Truss before PM Rishi Sunk brought her back and now "sacked" her again. Braverman may be gone (for now) but, her ilk are always waiting to stela back into office and stand up concentration camps and state-sponsored death squads.
Sadly, if a US equivalent of Suella Braverman had done this in the US she would probably have gotten away with it as we have seen the architects and agitators of the Republican January 6th Coup have largely gone unpunished and many still have their position and power in the US Government.
Fascism is here, there, everywhere these days. Liberal political theory and Democracy are once again under assault from religious conservatives and money-focused conservatives across Europe, the UK and America, who hate freedom and liberty and seek to install Authortarian governments (with themselves in charge of course).
Unfortunately, besides the Israeli atrocities and slaughter of civilians have opened up an unexpected avenue of attack for Republicans in the US and Tories over in England to dust off their anti-Islam playbooks, rejoice and revel in the deaths of Muslims, and seek to brand anyone opposed to Israe's indiscriminate military actions an Anti-Semite. It's about the only thing which still Unites the Right, and it might be just what Trump and Republicans need to steal back into office here.
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