The thing with conservative/right-wingers is that they don't care about facts, they only care about gut feeling

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"The self-described patriots of today’s British right seem giddy at the prospect of outsourcing their political identity to a foreign power and welcome the relegation of British sovereignty to vassal status within Trump’s new world order – just as long as they can personally and financially benefit from being the new comprador class within their own country."

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"There are elements of this dynamic apparent elsewhere in the west, in Canada, Australia or Germany. But the extent to which British rightwing commentators have been willing to declare their love and loyalty to Trump’s America has been striking."

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Kojo Koram reports on how resistance to US consumerism and its vulgarities "has now almost entirely disappeared, especially within the British right, which, in the age of social media, has been only too happy to embrace the language, the tactics and the grievances of the US culture war."

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

British conservatives once looked down on the American right. Now they’re riding on Maga’s coat-tails

Self-described UK patriots have spotted an opportunity for advancement and enrichment. That’s why so many outsource their identity to Trump, says author and academic Kojo Koram

^{Kojo Koram (The Guardian)}