I have been a supporter of Tommy Robinson for many years because not only was he right to have spoken up when he did, but because he was brave to do so.
When he asked me to speak at his freedom rallies, I accepted without question.
I'll explain why:
It may be hard to see or understand from the outside, but the political consensus in Britain is still very tightly controlled by the rules set by the Blairite Labour establishment. Tommy is rendered by them as a totemic evil because he dared expose the flaws of multiculturalism.
Never has a man been more pillaried by the British establishment for telling the truth. Moreover, there is a distinct air of class hatred that is poured down upon him; the political distinction between @DouglasKMurray and Tommy is their accents, which Murray is sensitive to.
James wants America to be a kind of Kantian idealist state where the normal rules of human society don't apply. This is a fiction; America is not a purely ideological construct. If it was, why assign it a geographic name? Why call it a nation? Americans would be from anywhere.
Ironically, James is guilty of doing that which he accuses others of: he is mystifying the issue. In attempting to extract a coherent line of logic from the half-baked proto-liberalism of the American founding, he is amplifying out of context and out of scale anything useful.
People are not only constructs of the mind. They are corporeal and temporal beings who, among other things, contain many layers of competing and contradictory beliefs, desires, irrationalities, unconscious biases and drives, and the capacity for rational thought.
Trump appears to have increased his vote share in every cohort. This data is from surveys done by Northeastern University. First: all men and all women.
A few days ago, right-wing activist Steve Laws published this tweet. The tweet itself is not racist, but many would charge Laws himself with being racist, a charge he likely wouldn't deny. The responses, though, reveal the Conservative Party to be supported by leftists.
Printing Kemi Badenoch's full name is not racism, but Olivia, the head of social media for Conservative Women (pronouns in bio) naturally reads it as such.
Amadeo agrees with the left that "diversity can be our strength". Does he really believe he can out-left the left? Why would he want to?
Reducing immigration is the top priority in the UK right now. Here's a quick thread drawn from YouGov about how everyone is absolutely sick of it and wants something done about it.
More than two thirds of the country thinks that immigration has been too high in the last ten years. The people who either think it was "about right" or "too low" are a measely 21% of the population.
Unsurprisingly, the British public is not blind to the problem of immigration and crime: 56% think that yes, the more immigration we have, the more crimes we have.