Again, they believe this because it’s true: their leaders and the hangers on around government have been visibly fighting a losing battle against reality for seventeen years, and they will never admit it or concede defeat. They will gladly embrace Generalissimo Nigel before they ever do that.

I mean, are the public wrong? All the long term trends indicate they’re going to get fucking rinsed for the rest of their lives, and America and Europe have deliberately reintroduced genocide of whole populations as a tool of military policy.