Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage
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I'm sorry, but what "authoritarian side of progressive ideas and politics" are you talking about? I'm a progressive (not a tankie), and genuinely have no idea what you might be talking about. Most everything that people have wanted passed is protecting individual rights and liberties for everyone...not just white men.
"You're FORCING us to respect people's rights?? Definitely authoritarianism."
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
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I'm sorry, but what "authoritarian side of progressive ideas and politics" are you talking about? I'm a progressive (not a tankie), and genuinely have no idea what you might be talking about. Most everything that people have wanted passed is protecting individual rights and liberties for everyone...not just white men.
There is a tendency amongst those on the political extremes to:
Silence opposing voices;
Push for, and sometimes implement the policing and criminalization of certain speech; Root out 'enemies' through witch-hunts and humiliation rituals or 'struggle sessions';
Enforce a conformity of ideas and opinions through the threat of ostracization, humiliation or violence.
Instill a culture of fear around speech or activities contrary to the 'party line.'
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Now if only we could.
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
I do worry though for a sort of dig in in their policies. Similar to Putin before the invasion. A lot of the far right said that "yes, a strong autocrat, masculin, anti-woke, homophobic person like Putin would be the saviour of Europe". Now some of them, like almost split in the middle, stopped saying "those things are good, look at Putin", but lost no support after the invasion. With Trump its going to be a similar thing, is my worry. "Yeah, but Trump is a bafoon, but massdeportation, autocracy, and capital's control over the government are still important, we will just to ot the proper way" is what it will move to. And of course a lot of europeans, even on the far right, will breath a deep sigh of relief that they can call Trump a bafoon. I think, or worry more like it, it will marginally affect the support for the fra-right, if at all, the liberals that has not already joined the far-right or the socdems will try to shoehorn in a comparison to Trump at every argument, and they will get nowhere.
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Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
He even went all the way back to the 90s
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Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
The Onion likely did it first. Regardless it’s funny either way.
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
God I hope so
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Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
When Trump can run an ad about giving sex changes to prisoners, to then place them in a female prison, you realize there needs to be a shift towards what the average person actually wants.
Inclusively is nice, but we instead have a guy dismantling everything.
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I hope you're right, but I'm not convinced we can draw conclusions yet. Starmer's government is not popular and while Farage has been a joke at home among many, he never drops out of the picture because he has a lot of international far-right support and consequently a lot of money. Brexit was obviously stupid and happened; giving Farage power would be similarly stupid and I'm not sure it couldn't still happen. In Germany the AfD is still too strong, though not quite as strong as it had hoped. In Canada I hope people have finally seen through Poilievre, but again Canada underestimates the Trumpist/convoy/PP people at its peril, and while Carney is sending a lot of good messages the kind of liiberalism he represents has not traditionally done well in holding off the fascists.
The thing is that Centrist neoliberal politics is completely on appealing to anyone, and the far right has capitalized on that by fighting an alternative that blows but it Taps into racism so they're able to achieve some success against competition that doesn't even pretend to care about you or fight for anything other than billionaire profits. That's also why Unapologetic left-wing parties can also do well sometimes when not actively suppressed. Even stuff like Bernie Sanders and AOC's rally tour shows that people something different than what we have, and they don't seem to be too picky about what it is specifically. If we can convince them that the left wing side offers them a better life than the right wing we can beat them
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The thing is that Centrist neoliberal politics is completely on appealing to anyone, and the far right has capitalized on that by fighting an alternative that blows but it Taps into racism so they're able to achieve some success against competition that doesn't even pretend to care about you or fight for anything other than billionaire profits. That's also why Unapologetic left-wing parties can also do well sometimes when not actively suppressed. Even stuff like Bernie Sanders and AOC's rally tour shows that people something different than what we have, and they don't seem to be too picky about what it is specifically. If we can convince them that the left wing side offers them a better life than the right wing we can beat them
Thing about windows is you can shatter them. Time to defenestrate neoliberalism right through the Overton Window.
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There is a tendency amongst those on the political extremes to:
Silence opposing voices;
Push for, and sometimes implement the policing and criminalization of certain speech; Root out 'enemies' through witch-hunts and humiliation rituals or 'struggle sessions';
Enforce a conformity of ideas and opinions through the threat of ostracization, humiliation or violence.
Instill a culture of fear around speech or activities contrary to the 'party line.'
Amongst other things.So, there can be no consequences for speech? That's bullshit.
Are some overly zealous in their response? Sure. Is that authoritarian? Hell no.
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Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
Yeah, it's not a fever, it's more like a reversion to our primitive mean. That being said, actually doing things they have to defend is what made fascism uncool the first time.
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Glad the rest of the world is learning from our mistake.
Yes, thanks America. You're finally up on the cross with the best of them.
(I'm sorry this is happening to you, OP)
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Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.
DOGE gutting the goverment and randomly firing tens of thousands of people. Social Security at risk. The VA at risk. The Department of Education Dead. The stock market in correction territory. Consumer confidence down. People protesting at Tesla stores. Massive crowds showing up for AOC and Sanders. At war with our allies as we randomly deport people and fall into facism.
Checks approval polling for Trump - 49%
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DOGE gutting the goverment and randomly firing tens of thousands of people. Social Security at risk. The VA at risk. The Department of Education Dead. The stock market in correction territory. Consumer confidence down. People protesting at Tesla stores. Massive crowds showing up for AOC and Sanders. At war with our allies as we randomly deport people and fall into facism.
Checks approval polling for Trump - 49%
I swear, the orange fuck could nuke Texas and kill every Texan and his approval rating would only drop by .01%
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I swear, the orange fuck could nuke Texas and kill every Texan and his approval rating would only drop by .01%
Nah, Texas makes too much money. Oklahoma maybe
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So, there can be no consequences for speech? That's bullshit.
Are some overly zealous in their response? Sure. Is that authoritarian? Hell no.
There are always consequences, some more productive that others. Note that I am not claiming that progressive politics are authoritarian, only that there are authoritarian tendencies on the far left end of the progressive spectrum. I would probably class myself as progressive. Green/Labour left is probably closer.
Where one might say 'overly zealous' another might say 'authoritarian.'
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That's assuming he's even considering that there will be future elections. Or at least elections in which the oligarchs have a chance of losing (I'm still betting Trump plans on living forever and never ceding power because narcissist).
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Yup. In several countries, including my own (Portugal), the 'far right' who tends to repeat Trump's talking points is raising red flags all over.
Poilievre in Canada, Farage in the UK, the whole AfD/Musk/Vance debacle in Germany, and so on. And many of these parties were gaining strong traction with each election. Now Trump's image association with them might as well be a radioactive label.
Just a little while ago, the IL (liberals, but now they are more like libertarians) was saying that we had to adopt an efficiency department like DOGE. Apparently they don't believe that Trump and Musk's image can damage theirs.
