GORETZKI ON RIGHT-WING IDIOCY

The Daily Mail. Aren’t we lucky to have such a colossally benighted and intolerant organ to stoke the already knicker-wetting fears and prejudices of Middle England. The acceptable face of facism and the real reason proper socialism has such an uphill struggle in this country, with its gently insistent discursive arc accomplishing the populist displacement of constructive political anger on to some ill-defined ‘Other’ (terrorists, gypsies, thugs, anarchists, chavs, immigrants, etc) for people who know their bally place and are quite happy thank you.

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