This. With Carswell I think there is a clear radicalisation: he was a Singapore on Thames Brexiteer who argued (against his own side) for immigration at one point. But the seeds have to be there first I think
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People think it's a long road between free market radical libertarianism and skull measuring fascism but all the evidence shows that there's a very handy one way short cut between them.
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Yes. John Ganz is very good on this.
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Indeed. Didn't see him when I was on Twitter but he's been a great find on the BlueSky thingy.
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Political transformations often begin with such intellectual contradictions and unresolved tensions.
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Idk, I think Camerpn was probably on to something when he called UKIP "Fruitcakes, loons and closet racists."
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