I've said it many times before: Trump & Brexit (and the popularity of AfD/UKIP etc) are the direct result of the Left's obsession with identity politics and push to control discussion. People have been turning away from this, and as an undesirable result we now have a more vocal and confident far-right.
They aren't, though.
The rise of Trump (and the attitudes behind Brexit here) is down to the media and political parties repeating over a period of some years the same demands for the things that far right groups traditionally agitate for. How long has the
Mail and that other rag been going on about immigrants or about the feral underclass class? How often have they lauded political leaders as strong or powerful for taking military action as opposed to discussion? How many times have they praised business leaders for making money (irrespective of how sustainable that is) whilst attacking (for instance) unions for trying to prevent things that cost us all a lot of money further down the line? How many lies did they peddle - or at best allowed to go unchallenged - from the politicians they favoured, even when those lies were easily disprovable at the time and had an impact that cost people their lives? The idea of a strong decisive leader that speaks his mind, does what "the people" want and gets things done is one that we have been told to like for years.
I agree that Antifa or some like group is a daft idea - not least for the reason that the extreme right loves uniforms, weapons and martyrs so will probably be able to out-organize any left group - but to blame the Left for the rise of Trump is just daft; lets face it the Left has been a nonentity in the US for years and was largely an irrelevance here as well from 1983-2015.
