Charlie Alford

Funny fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes

Post author:Hugo Harvey
Post published:4 August 2026
Post last modified:5 August 2026

As the Canary reports, the White House spent last October recruiting ICE agents by using Halo video game memes. It cast agents as space marines and migrants as an alien invasion to be destroyed. Last Friday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump wore his signature red cap, this time reading “Trump 2028,”, announcing his intention to run for president for a fourth time, which would break the USA’s two-term constitutional limit. He also insisted he had already won three elections, continuing to deny he lost the 2020 election to Biden. The Guardian‘s write-up that night ran under the headline “Donald…

Kennard: New book places America at the centre of global wars and fascism

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:17 July 2026
Post last modified:17 July 2026

In an interview with the Canary, author Matt Kennard has said that to understand geopolitics the US must be understood as the global centre of war and fascism. And he dates the current wildness of the world’s biggest terror state to the so-called ‘war on terror‘. The Bush administration removed barriers that had prevented right-wing extremists entering the US military. Now they are running it – and at the top of both sides of US two-party politics: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Canary (@thecanaryuk) Kennard: “Extremists are at the wheel” Kennard’s newly-updated book, Irregular Army, “shows how…

Why are the far right doing so well? And can they be stopped?

Post author:oscar
Post published:17 May 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: Why are the far right doing so well? And can it be stopped? Across the UK and Europe, far-right parties are surging. Reform are ahead in UK national polls. The AfD doubled its vote share in Germany. The mainstream response has oscillated between dismissal, alarm, and increasingly desperate attempts at imitation. Gary’s argument is that all of these responses share the same flaw. They are focused on the wrong question. The question is not how to discredit the far right. The question is why they are winning — and that…