Here’s more evidence that the phenomenon of elites vs. we-the-rubes spans the Atlantic and has spread throughout most Western nations. Writing at Breitbart, James Delingpole shares the latest proclamation from the Archbishop of Canterbury in his native Britian ~ The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has suggested that the people who voted for Donald Trump and Brexit are a bunch of fascists.
Leftists often resort to hyperbole – especially when they sense they’re losing ground – but “fascist?” Seriously?
How good does it feel to know that the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks I’m a fascist and that the people who voted for Donald Trump are fascists and that the ones who are going to vote for Geert Wilders are fascists?
It feels absolutely brilliant, actually, because what it does is help put these most extraordinary times we’re living through in their proper context […]
(C)learly, the “f” word could scarcely be further off-beam to describe the movements which led to Brexit and the Donald Trump. These weren’t endorsements of the kind of arbitrary authority and abuse of state power we saw in the 1930s but rather very explicit rejections of them.
If you really want to use the word “fascistic” in a modern context, you could more aptly apply it to, say, the remoteness and democratic unaccountability of the European Commission, to the corruption and profligacy of the D.C. Establishment, to the businesses ruined and the lives broken by overregulation and Big Government meddling which have led to mass unemployment and poverty in what were once thriving first world nation states, to the ordinary citizens all over Europe being told by their governments, “Here is some cultural enrichment for you from some new friends from the Middle East – and if you don’t like it, tough, because that’s the future we’ve decided to impose on you”…
The fact that an intelligent, well-educated, God-fearing man like the Archbishop of Canterbury cannot see the good in Trump and Brexit and the fundamental evil in the systems they have overthrown speaks more eloquently than a thousand clever articles by people like me as to why the revolutions we experienced in 2016 and the ones we’re going to go on experiencing in 2017 are so very, very necessary.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is a decent, well-meaning man with a very lofty position in the global hierarchy: but then, so are large numbers of many of the other Establishment types who fought so hard for Remain and so hard against Donald Trump.
Read Delingpole’s entire piece HERE – it’s a hoot.
(Crude language alert: There’s been a noticeable decline in Breitbart’s vocabulary quality since the went full “Trumpbart” last summer in the lead-up to the election. But then Trump does seem to appeal to our baser instincts doesn’t he?)
