The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?

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  The Impossible Promise.

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  Are we witnessing the return of fascism?

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  By Daniel Trilling.

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  Read by Sami Abu Wardah.

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  Politics, before it's about anything else, is about emotion.

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  We all base our judgments about the world, the state of the country we live in, for instance,

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  and what we 'd like to do about it, on a mix of rational calculation and instinct.

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  But for these judgments to be shaped into a political program whose ideals are shared by millions of people,

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  and for us to place our trust in leaders who promise to realize those goals, we really have to feel it.

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  What, then, might be the particular set of feelings evoked by the following?

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  The Britain that I love is being ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion.

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  Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary, February 2026.

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  It's not just Britain that's being invaded.

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  It's not just Britain that's being raped.

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  Every single Western nation faces the same problem.

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  An orchestrated, organised invasion and replacement of European citizens is happening.

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