“Given the right conditions any society can turn against democracy,” Applebaum says, and explains why better than any modern writer I know. To the political consequences of offended vanity – Why am I not more important? Why does the BBC never call? – a sense of despair is vital. If you believe, like the American right, that godless enemies want to destroy your Christian country...or think...that English culture and history is being thrown in the bin, and you are being chucked away with it, or agree with the supporters of the new tyrants of eastern Europe that a liberal elite is plotting to extinguish your culture by importing Muslim immigrants, and proving its contempt for all that is decent by laughing at you, then any swine [Grump, Johnson, Orban, etc] will do as long as the swine can stop it. You will pay any price and abandon any principle in the struggle against a demonic enemy [like liberal multiculturalism].
Paving the way for Trump and Brexit, The Guardian
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