"The right-wing determination to find non-existent cultural threats is a distraction"

They believe pubs and workplaces are full of people disgusted by student demands to tear down statues of slave owners, who vomit in a mixed toilet

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According to an old saying, when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold.

This implies that when something happens in the Land of the Freak, we slavishly follow that example. Think about invading Iraq or letting the hedge fund cowboys almost bankrupt us.

However, our efforts are generally a pale imitation of theirs.

They offer McDonald's, Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, we answer with Wimpy, Cliff Richard and Henry Cooper.

We have also seen it in politics. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were cut from the same insensitive cloth, Tony Blair copied Bill Clinton by staging an act of manly tribute to JFK, and Boris Johnson followed Donald Trump to the gutter pulling his anti- elitist and against fake news. /p>

And as Republican Ron DeSantis tries to become heir to Trump's populist throne by firmly planting his flag on the anti-revival battlefield, we can see how the right will try to stay in power in our next few days. general elections.< /p>

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The governor of Florida is riding a wave of popularity by putting all modern evils out of this leftist anti-inequality disease.

"The Woke Mind Virus is fundamentally a form of cultural Marxism," DeSantis said, announcing his Republican candidacy for president next year.

“This is an attack on truth. And because it is a war on truth, I think we have no choice but to wage a war on revival.”

The British right has already taken up arms. Instead of demanding answers from the third worst government in living memory (after that of Johnson and Truss), our partisan conservative newspapers unload their spleen on all that has woken up.

And barely-watched Fox-lite UK TV channels are full of shocked athletes fuming at the snowflakes, backed by crazies from neoconservative think tanks.

They believe that pubs and workplaces are full of people disgusted with students...