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Nov 10·edited Nov 10Liked by Frank Furedi

Despair over the future lifted (at least for now) on 5th November. There would be no merged super blob of Labour and the Democrats. It turned out that women and ethnic minorities were not for patronising. The assumprtion that they did not care about immigration or the economy sank Harris' campaign. Just glorious.

Further grounds for hope (at least for now) is that the next Trump administration will be very different from 2017. Trump and his team are no longer as naive as in 2016. They are preparing up to 3000 appointments of their people to replace the establishment fifth column that undermined and destabilised his first presidency and with a Repubican senate and quite likely the hoiuse as well things should be very different.

Unfortunately, as this article emphasises, the forces of reaction in the US will not be undergoing a conversion. The cultural elites are likely to be like cults which double down even when reality and facts appear overwhelmingly contrary to their beliefs. It will probably take several presidential terms to effect deeper level change - two terms was not enough for Reaganism - and whether Democrat eltisim can be kept out of power will depend on the US economy against which is burgeoning levels of US debt as well as 'events' in the now multipolar world are tremendous risks.

Alas, it is here in the UK that identity politics and 'decolonsiation' (the repudiation of history) is still entrenched with even the Scouts and the British Legion being the most recent to be infected along with Boots and its ridiculous new Christmas ad. Labour's impending review of the educational syllabus is particularly chilling as they try to indocrinate the next generation.

Yes, we must fight and fight again, but Trump's landslide gives us renewed hope. "Remember, remember the 5th November" has taken on new meaning.

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Mad as a cut snake the wokelings will be. Though the size of the victory seems to have de-fanged them somewhat, and hence little in the way of "mostly peaceful" protests.

Our main right wing party in Australia, however, seems oblivious to the reasons Trump won so convincingly, and have backed the ruling Labor party's plan to ban under 16 yr olds from social media, meaning digital ID and facial recognition for everyone in order to log onto social media.

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The main outcome of the election was the wrongness of the polls. It meant people were still afraid to speak their mind, but they voted their minds. A culture that intimidates people from speaking their mind is despicable and dangerous. Now more than half the population are unmuzzled, also hopefully here in UK too. The woke domination will fall, bit by bit, and sooner than you think, because a lot of people were forced to enact it even when they didn't believe it.

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