I think they are absolutely the same thing. Both are built on social media. Both are populist movements attacking the liberal elite. Both major on immigration. Both are supportive of Putin's Rus… (View Post)

My wife likes to say that I always think I am right, which she appears to find irritating. My response is always, of course I think I am right. Everybody thinks they are right. If I thought I was wro… (View Post)

I'm sorry, you are just wrong. (View Post)

Yes. I think the first point is the main one. Democracies tend to veer into fascism in the absence of periodic reminders that this is not a great idea. The Nazi era inoculation has worn off. (View Post)

And yet Australia is not exactly a bastion of wokeness that is crying out for a correction. In my opinion the rise of the far right is really driven by two fundamental factors. The first is passage o… (View Post)