It's in the article.

Mate...

100%. This is what I called hegemonic defeatism in a paper recently (I didn't notice at the time how well it seems to apply)...

All of them have. Truly appalling.

Incredible...

Nope, the "everyone" means anyone right of a leftwing alternative here

Yes absolutely! I included that as part of the infighting... Giving anyone on the left or right of that party any excuse to dislike them...

Absolutely. Particularly since these 'flaws' have been known for a long time and his thinking has been thoroughly dissected by now. It's a useful reminder no doubt but that cannot be the entire strategy.

Or Farright 🤷🏻‍♂️

Absolutely. It shouldn't be hard to understand either for anyone who cares about this mainstreaming rather than Farage himself

Absolutely. I'm amazed they're asking him to apologise as if that would make a difference to the damage he's doing and that they've enabled...

Sigh... What a state of things we live in...

Yes, it's really tricky and it's been annoying seeing some responses from people I expected would know better

Obviously, the point was never to say that his past behaviour was irrelevant but surely it should not be radical at this stage to expect wider scrutiny

Reposting it as this shouldn't be a controversial take if what we care about is the resurgence of far-right politics rather than Farage himself and yet I'm surprised by the reaction (or lack thereof) it has caused

The issue is not (just) past behaviour, it is what's being mainstreamed today