It’s too much, even for the British conservatives who were excited by Trump’s transgressive allure, and they are scrambling to rewrite the past. “Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos.” Far from being Britain’s Trump, Johnson has “succeeded in yoking anti-establishment passions to a conventional political party – and thereby taming them”. They now say that, unlike Trump, Johnson is an easy-going liberal. “Imagine Trump doing Brexit,” Johnson cried in 2018 as he schemed to become prime minister. Although the US right is in pieces, British conservatives are still in power and still getting away with it.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2021 18:56 UTC