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The Big Story:
Donald Trump makes a brief visit to Britain. A ceremonial tour? Or a key sales stop by MAGA’s franchiser as the political movement develops global vendors in the manner of other American fast-food chains?
- Britain is important to America’s MAGA movement, as a cautionary tale and a crucial recruit in the worldwide war against liberalism.
- MAGA is deepening ties with Britain’s right-wing Reform Party, which promises Trump-style mass deportations if it wins power.
- Trump allies claim that “England is heading to a civil war” on account of being overrun by migrants and Muslims. They say progressive liberalism has taken Europe to “a state of civilisational emergency” because it has “lost control of its borders and its streets”.
- MAGA’s globalist aspirations are seen in the way the Conservative Political Action Conference — premier annual gathering of the American right — has been increasingly leasing its brand to right-wing movements in Asia, South America and Australia. In fact, American orthodox activist Charlie Kirk was in South Korea and Japan just days before he was shot dead.
A Trump-supporting self-published author has approvingly noted the 2022 publication of ‘Making India Great Again: Learning From Our History’.
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