The fascists are (probably not) coming!

The constant journalistic prattle about how everything is going wrong is driven partly by the advancing age of the journalists concerned, and partly by the constant need to feed the media beast, and only a little bit by a sober assessment of objective reality.

'We will send foreigners back to their homelands. Millions of them. That is not a secret plan. That is a promise,' snarled extreme-right German parliamentarian René Springer, pictured, on social media recently. Photograph courtesy of Olaf Kosinsky/Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 24, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—‘Fascism is on the march everywhere!’ shrieked the headline on a recent think-piece by my least favourite foreign affairs commentator (who must remain nameless because I don’t want to give him any publicity). But articles and op-eds about the fascist thr...

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