From America with cash: Right-wing groups want to end abortion in the UK
A right-wing political and media ecosystem pushing a US-style anti-abortion agenda is gaining traction in the UK
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/us-anti-abortion-culture-war-uk-stella-creasy-amendement-/
Meanwhile:
YouGov survey finds nearly 90% of Britons support abortion
Probably I have a parochial American viewpoint, but it continually surprises me how much fascism revenant and its variations are a world-wide phenomenon.
Agreed the roots are deep, and the resurgence fills a need felt by authoritarian followers (e.g., consider Bob Altemeyer's absolutely masterful poli sci book, _The Authoritarians_).
After all, Genghis Khan, Amir Timur (Tamburlaine the Great), arguably Julius Caesar and some of the Tokugawa shoguns... they all came from somewhere.
It bewilders me why it keeps coming BACK. Some decades ago, stories from a Chilean friend who grew up under Pinochet were deeply confusing. Now I find my neighbors confusing, for similar reasons.
You may be onto something with the antagonism of democracy and the combination of imperialism and unregulated capitalism. Concentrated money wants concentrated power.
Surely there's some history book I'm missing?
@weekend_editor I thinkthe key mistake was in associating the adversary in the second world war too closely with Germany and specifically Nazism, rather than the mindset (which also infused Franco's Spain, Stalin's USSR, and others). Fascism tends towards stripped-down monarchism, too, and Putin's attempts to rebuild the Russian empire accelerated the resurgence.
But worst of all: folks who were adults in 1945 are all dying or dead now. Nobody remembers at first hand any more.
I thought something similar during the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
Republican attempts to cut spending, particularly the social programs they hate, would have been anti-stimulus.
Adults who understood the Depression were gone, so we attempted to repeat their mistakes.
Charlie Stross
Weekend Editor