The right-wing media's 'cultish' defence of Boris Johnson is the UK's version of Donald Trump's 'stop the steal' campaign, according to James O'Brien. mrjamesob
"That fear that I have about the direction of travel and the fact we occasionally use the f-word when we discuss British politics...you get that fascistic movement, that fascistic direction when everybody becomes an enemy."
"I never thought I'd see the day that Conservative MPs...are getting the full enemies of the people treatment" he said. James declared the media-political campaign a "denial of observable reality" and urged listeners to "think about what that says about our democracy" for politicians to attack their own colleagues for judging whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament.
James O'Brien then paraphrased the Martin Niemöller poem First They Came, suggesting that those who would defend these MPs under scrutiny have disappeared, because the government and the right-wing media have castigated everyone who would possibly come out to condemn the action.Offering an analogy for the current state of British politics, James wondered if the UK has "reached our big lie moment".
"When a cultish newspaper defends a corrupt prime minister by calling for an independent investigation into his dishonesty to be curtailed, to be called off, to be undermined, that is the same as Donald Trump supporters believing him when he says he's been the victim of a big lie."
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