"... British conservatives are still in power and still getting away with it. They will only change, if they ever change, when they receive their overdue punishment."
Do not underestimate anti-Trump hysteria. They have tasted blood. And they're not full.
"The exhilaration that extreme political movements bring lies in the permission they give to sin."
Oh, such irony, indeed.
"No punishment would follow if they lied or incited hatred."
"Trump showed they needed to lie and incite to win and the greater the lies and more inflammatory the incitements, the greater the victory."
So punish them, right?
Right?
All those @Telegraph and @spectator columns, fantasising about insurrections, coups, and incitement licenced the with-hunt, and their cowardly scribblers will be writing defences of Big Tech's instructions being made UK law, "lest we forget" the fancy dress putsch of 1/21.
(...licenced the witCh-hunt...)
Some @Conservatives MPs will put up a mock defence of liberties. But they will fold as surely and as neatly as they folded in the face of endless lockdowns.
The opposition will argue that they do not go far enough.
The difference is one of estimations of the competences of governments vs. individuals, and to whom the benefit of the doubt goes to.
Hawks presuppose governments because they are the governments. Thus they are forced to belittle people and sceptics, and this becomes the debate.
There was a brief moment, back last March, where it looked like the PP would be abandoned, and that government competence would not be taken for granted. Instead, the government were bounced into promising "three weeks to flatten the curve". Here we are, ten months later.
It is not just closing someone's Twitter account. It is closing down democratically-appointed people's accounts, while seeking to impeach & prosecute them, depriving them of a platform from which to defend themselves, and moving to outlaw their broader movements. It *is* fascism.
You may want to split hairs about precise definitions, and of historical parallels and the pitfalls of drawing them. But fascism was never so clearly defined by its theoreticians, or since, by historians.
They will use the law, violence, and war to further their interests, against their opponents, against democracy and against their populations.
That makes the case, as far as I am concerned, and the rest is for the birds, so to speak.