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 The speed with which the extreme right and mainline-right enablers move from target to target makes me less pessimistic about climate. In the mid-2010s, Public Enemy #1 was immigrants. It's shifted - now it's trans people and environmentalists (more the former in the UK/US, and more the latter in Northern Europe, but it's both). But the enemies shift too quickly for a backlash the scale of 1970s-80s anti-anti-racism in the US. Long-term, renewables keep expanding and YIMBYism is gaining ground.