Oddbean new post about login | logout @1eccc0f8 I'm not really sure about using "Trumpism" to suggest that this resurgence in right wing populism with fascist overtones is something new when it feels like mostly the same old stuff repackaged. Some of the religious overtones of the US/UK current right seem quite different which seems to change a lot of things, but the way they claim most people secretly agree with them and including of conspiracy theories rings true as a parallel definitely.
@d21c1652 @1eccc0f8 Some of the Tory right are Screaming Jeezus Pipple, but they know it's a vote-loser in the UK so they mostly keep it on the down-low. In particular the USA's growing fundamentalist christianity/white supremacy intersection is vestigial/non-existent in the UK.
@0c1a9324 @1eccc0f8 indeed the two movements feel related but different, also "Trumpism" I worry is a gloss to avoid naming growing fascism. Miriam Cates is the example giving me the most fear of something similar growing in the UK, and a lot of the anti-trans/anti-abortion stuff occurring here is using resources and ideas from the US but still a different flavour. As you say its being kept quiet for fear of losing votes, being loudly religious in the UK seems a vote loser (currently).