One thing I say in "The White Pedestal" is that these comparisons from the left aren't the sick burns we think they are: narratives of decline, wherever they come from, nourish fascism because the more people that believe it, the more people are willing to put their hope in authoritarians.
“It reminds me, sadly, of kind of the end days of the Roman Empire."
“Quite strange seeing Lincoln looking down at these steps,” Donie O’Sullivan said.