“Normal” people, abnormal power: How Farage and Musk are normalising an overreaching state

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From Farage and Trump to Elon Musk, the right is well practised at using jokes and memes to hint at what they want to do without making the argument out loud. But they have another trick: claiming to be “normal people.” Not far right, just right In an interview with the Economist, after being described as supporting the populist right, far-right and fringe parties (such as the AfD in Germany), Elon Musk shot back: No, I support the normal people; what you call the far right, falsely. He, of course, went further. With offense is the best defense, Musk took a…

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