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Hitler, Franco, & Mussolini all headed coalitions of Nationalist Fascist & Conservative factions, & all subscribed to a far-right ideology which we may call National Conservatism, & which involves scapegoating minorities & the Left as threats to 'Western Civilisation'.
Hitler, Franco, & Mussolini all headed coalitions of Nationalist Fascist & Conservative factions, & all subscribed to a far-right ideology which we may call National Conservatism, & which involves scapegoating minorities & the Left as threats to 'Western Civilisation'.
Should we be concerned that it was Britain's turn to host the National Conservatism conference aka #NatCon, aka the #NatC conference?
Unless you've been living under a rock you'll know that in May, the American hard Right came to England. Calvin Robinson did not speak at it.
Unless you've been living under a rock you'll know that in May, the American hard Right came to England. Calvin Robinson did not speak at it.
Unlike in Hungary, where last year's gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures was an offshoot of the Trump & Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the NatCon conference here was backed by the Edmund Burke Foundation.
This is a #THREAD about propaganda, right-wing populist nationalist Christian authoritarianism, @BBCr4today, Sebastian Kurz, your health records, the NatCon conference, & Libertarian billionaire, Peter Thiel. I know this sounds like the introduction to an Adam Curtis documentary.
Radio 4’s Today Programme has lost 800,000 listeners in the past year as they switched to podcasts & rival talk radio shows.
It has also had to deal with Rishi Sunak’s government cutting access to government ministers as part of a deliberate communication strategy.
It has also had to deal with Rishi Sunak’s government cutting access to government ministers as part of a deliberate communication strategy.
An expert on right-wing authoritarianism, Ruth Wodak's February 2023 article, 'Analyzing the shift to the far-right: the Austrian case', is Open Access (free to read), & helps explain @BBCr4today's loss of listeners, & recent developments in #propaganda.
link.springer.com/article/10.105…
link.springer.com/article/10.105…
we are *right now* witnessing & watching, *in real time* the birth of *FASCIST* conservatism, *co-ordinated in real time* with a similar (though further along) movement in the US
"less woke schools" - exact same in US funded by DeVos Foundation
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"less woke schools" - exact same in US funded by DeVos Foundation
web.archive.org/web/2022042214…
@docrussjackson @karamballes I've read several US articles today & the similarities between #NatCon #CDO & the US Far Right are both astounding and BLATANT
Elon Musk & Peter Thiel are busily promoting the #WokeMindVirus & Kayleigh McEnany / Miriam Cates are promoting the
Elon Musk & Peter Thiel are busily promoting the #WokeMindVirus & Kayleigh McEnany / Miriam Cates are promoting the
#GreatReplacementTheory & promoting the "need" for (WHITE) (Christian) babies
Looks like Katharine Birbalsingh just blamed a 1986 Whitney Houston cover version of Greatest Love for Millenials and Generation Z #NatCon
I'm fairly sick of people - particularly someone in that job - having a constant go at people of my childrens' generation. Compared to the hedonistic me me me of my own Generation X many of these young people are a cut above. I for one do believe that the children are our future.
Wow. And I was this many years old when I discovered that the song was originally written as the title song to a biopic about the life of Muhammad Ali and specifically his refusal to fight in Vietnam. Mind absolutely blown
“@Conservatives trust the judgment of the British people.” - Suella Braverman at #NatCon.
Is that why they introduced Voter ID, ignore the 71% of the electorate who didn't vote Tory in 2019, & why nobody outside of the Tory Party has had any say in Britain's last two PMs? 🇬🇧
Is that why they introduced Voter ID, ignore the 71% of the electorate who didn't vote Tory in 2019, & why nobody outside of the Tory Party has had any say in Britain's last two PMs? 🇬🇧
Braverman says “We cannot have immigration without integration. And if we lack the confidence to promote our culture… than we have nothing to integrate people into.”
Neofascist Braverman will never "integrate" into the everyday aspects of "British culture" I love & experience.
Neofascist Braverman will never "integrate" into the everyday aspects of "British culture" I love & experience.
Braverman says "The ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators is the sort of fact that has become unfashionable in some quarters."
Indeed it has.
Indeed it has.
If swivel-eyed anti-woke alt-right populist nationalist #QAnon #ProLife #Brextremist #TuftonSt #Manosphere #Christofascist conspiracy theorists organised a conference, sponsored by libertarian billionaires...
National Conservatism conference, May 15-17, Marsham Street, London.
National Conservatism conference, May 15-17, Marsham Street, London.
Keynote speaker at #NatCon, Heritage Foundation President: “Heritage’s position, to be really plain, is that marriage is between one man & one woman, full stop.” Asked if that means annulling existing same-sex marriages, he says “I hope so. That would be good for civil society.”
What follows is a summary #THREAD of the 'Statement of Principles' offered by 'National Conservatism', a Christian nationalist project of the Edmund Burke Foundation - a lobbying 'institute' founded in 2019 with the aim of strengthening the principles of national conservatism".
It seems Salvini is jealously eyeing Meloni's centrist rebranding and he wants in on the action. She is also reportedly thinking to link with EPP.
Question: Is Europe's far-right becoming more centrist, or is Manfred Weber's #EPP becoming more far-right? euractiv.com/section/politi…
Question: Is Europe's far-right becoming more centrist, or is Manfred Weber's #EPP becoming more far-right? euractiv.com/section/politi…
One thing is clear: whatever power Marine Le Pen previously had among the European far right has evaporated.
Far-right parties want to distance themselves from 🇫🇷#LePen, seeing her as a loser and 🇮🇹#Meloni as a winner.
Meloni has momentum on the European stage.
Far-right parties want to distance themselves from 🇫🇷#LePen, seeing her as a loser and 🇮🇹#Meloni as a winner.
Meloni has momentum on the European stage.
Meanwhile, the Tories’ decade-long romance of the EU’s far right is coming to a crescendo this month with the yearly Nat Con conference being hosted in London.
National Conservatism is a rebranding of the Trumpist far right designed to lure the center. nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023…
National Conservatism is a rebranding of the Trumpist far right designed to lure the center. nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023…
Watch @davidpgoldman give a talk about China at #Natcon and then pick up a copy of his monograph for @ClaremontInst @CenterForAWL, which has a new cover by me. How America Can Lose the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Provocations) a.co/d/c8uzWiJ
The other books in the @ClaremontInst @CenterForAWL Provocations series of monographs also got a re-design. @joelkotkin’s “Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny” and “Looming Extinction of the Working Class” are available now, too. a.co/d/ctpkjJv and
a.co/d/8m89wzc
a.co/d/8m89wzc
The next Provocations (#4) will be released next week. It’s an excellent, tight argument from Carson Holloway for revisiting NYT v Sullivan and libel and defamation law. The cover artwork, I think, is one of the best I’ve done. Stay tuned in the next few days for more info.
@yhazony at the National Conservatism Conference:
Individual liberty is good! But if it is the only good you believe in, it causes some serious problems:
#NatCon
Individual liberty is good! But if it is the only good you believe in, it causes some serious problems:
#NatCon
@tedcruz at the National Conservatism Conference:
There are seven battle grounds in this country today:
First, Big Tech.
Even if you like these omnipotent oligarchs' political opinions, you may not like them tomorrow.
"There came a Pharaoh who didn't remember Joseph!"
There are seven battle grounds in this country today:
First, Big Tech.
Even if you like these omnipotent oligarchs' political opinions, you may not like them tomorrow.
"There came a Pharaoh who didn't remember Joseph!"
@tedcruz at the National Conservatism Conference:
Second, Left wing authoritarianism.
COVID mandates were used to shutdown small businesses, as the giant corporations were aloud to grow wealthy.
Second, Left wing authoritarianism.
COVID mandates were used to shutdown small businesses, as the giant corporations were aloud to grow wealthy.
