“What makes this all the more striking is that it isn’t coming from Reform or Farage but from the Tories, a party often been held up as a bastion of serious, sensible centre-right politicians. In the blink of an eye, that’s all gone” www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...?

republicans have huge built-in advantages, a popular centre-right party would hold 60% majorities for decades they choose to be like this

over 8 years, it's gone from "public philosophy" to something like: "theory & analysis that knows the global fascist threat is real" www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

still going!

Outstanding article that everyone living in the UK most certainly should read

"Fascism is an opportunistic predator—it tests boundaries, backs off if there’s blowback, then tries again." Highly recommended article from @Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social about the fascist manifestation of the Tory Party, full of differentiated arguments. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social

"The party always had its share of bigots and idiots, but it also contained serious people with a sane approach to governance. Even in its worst post-Brexit manifestations, it wasn’t this. What on earth happened?" www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

"To find something of this magnitude, you’d have to go back to the population transfers in the years just after the Second World War." www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

Find me a fascist regime that didn't start this way.

fox news attempts to terrify its viewers with the prospect of a sane & just society

i need you all to stop what you're doing & take 1 minute & 35 seconds to listen to curtis silwa on rat abortions

using a language carefully =/= infrequently clarity cuts both ways - you shouldn't exaggerate, but you also shouldn't euphemise calls for the largest forced movement of people since the partition of india

tuberville is -- & I do not say this lightly -- the single stupidest senator

the tory proposal to deport 4-7% of the uk population is a fascist one - & we have to call it that my latest with @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

i just had a spirited (but friendly) debate with @prossertj.bsky.social is labour correct to try & compromise with the right on immigration? tom yes, me no

“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”

This is insane. The Tories are talking about deporting 4-7% of the population, mostly -legal- residents. Ordering that many people to leave after they did the 'right thing' is the kind of goodwill poisoning it will take generations to eventually recover from.

using a language carefully =/= infrequently clarity cuts both ways - you shouldn't exaggerate, but you also shouldn't euphemise calls for the largest forced movement of people since the partition of india

"I don’t use the term fascism lightly. But the Lam/Philp plan, if enacted, would be a human rights violation of a scale without an obvious analogue in the modern era." Toby Buckle on darkness in the U.K.: www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

next will be deporting brits trans girls

One of the reasons "Dems would be conservative in Europe" is so bonkers is that the typical conservative European position on immigration is significantly to the right of Stephen Miller.

NEW: "An up-and-coming member of Britain’s Conservative party is proposing to deport 4 to 7 percent of the legal population of the United Kingdom. That wasn’t a typo: Not 4 to 7 percent of the immigrant population, but of all of us." www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

the tory proposal to deport 4-7% of the uk population is a fascist one - & we have to call it that my latest with @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

The rat has ways of shutting that whole thing down

i need you all to stop what you're doing & take 1 minute & 35 seconds to listen to curtis silwa on rat abortions

fox news attempts to terrify its viewers with the prospect of a sane & just society

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

right. and additionally, even a personally transphobic Dem leader should recognize that it's a wedge issue for your base, and so the cynical realpolitik thing to do at a bare minimum is to shut up, deflect, and change the subject

i rewrote my patreon intro to try & better reflect what i do now www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...

not to take anything away from mamdani, i think lander also deserves a lot of credit he showed courage when cuomo was leading by going after him hard & was able to put his own ambitions (& ego) 2nd to keeping someone unfit for office out of it

be so racist the british media can't sanitise it challenge

i rewrote my patreon intro to try & better reflect what i do now www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...

Last night’s victories, everywhere they happened, were fundamentally anti-Yglesian, to coin a term.

"most dem victories where centrists" i say later in the 🧵, i'm not claiming this as a victory for either normie dems or socialists it's a victory for opposing fascism & not trying to appease it (which comes in both lib & left variants)

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

spanberger, first elected 2019 sherrill, first elected 2019 mamdani, first elected 2021

first results

uk as left & right blocks over 70 years

the british left is more used to strategic voting than, say, the american with that said, the strategic challenge this polling represents is . . . considerable

they'll be two podcast episodes out this week btw (as i was away this weekend & couldn't get any out)

by request: the last decade of UK politics as parties & as blocks (left = Lab+LD+GRN, right = Con+Ref/Ukip)

uk as left & right blocks over 70 years

by request: the last decade of UK politics as parties & as blocks (left = Lab+LD+GRN, right = Con+Ref/Ukip)

they'll be two podcast episodes out this week btw (as i was away this weekend & couldn't get any out)

the british left is more used to strategic voting than, say, the american with that said, the strategic challenge this polling represents is . . . considerable

look at how much more stable UK opinion is when you look at it as blocks: