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The rise of the right.
Is it just me that's concerned about this?
Hitler and Mussolini were viewed by quite a few as buffoons and now we have Trump on one side of the Atlantic and the dream-team of Johnson, Farage, Gove & Grayling on the other all of whom use a facade to hide the raft of dangerous and divisive policies they'd love to unleash given half a chance.
The Overton window has been pushed further and further to the right because, instead of refuting their politics, the Conservatives have been adopting them in order to retain voters and in doing so have also appealed to the extremist outliers. New Labour's lurch to the right under Blair hasn't helped either.
The arguments aren't logical, they're emotional and what's now considered acceptable in terms of rhetoric, headlines or campaigns is horrendous. How have we become this? How do we have mainstream political parties, with elected MPs who consider it acceptable to mimic Nazi propaganda?