Historians of the future will find it incredible that people inhaled stuff from the Daily Mail and actually believed it; that people like Trump, Johnson, Farage, Hannan and co. were ever taken seriously, and that complete BS stories concocted on social media by persons unknown were repeated among the general population as if they were incontrovertible truths.
Depressingly easy to manipulate yet stubborn in their insistence that only THEY know what’s really going on, there are many on here who fell victim to that, to the multiple fake identities, when it was no more than a singleton in his bedroom with trousers round his ankles, putting about total fiction to curry grace and favour from their dictator boss.
Offering false, comforting answers to complicated problems and simple solutions based on lies and bigotry, has always been a way forward for the far right. It’s also been a business model like no other for Murdoch and company.
