The undeclared cold civil war in the West is everywhere coming out of the closet. Both the Woke and Populist coalitions in every country have declared political war on each other at the level of ideology, generation of voter base and economic policy.
The moment of open conflict can be dated from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the MAGA coalition crossing ‘Red Lines’ on border policy domestically and Palestinian recognition internationally. There were other similar lines of departure in the UK, France and Germany.
The eerie thing about it is not that the kinetic level of confrontation has increased; even the Kirk assassination followed a string of attempts on other figures. It’s just that no one pretends not to see the conflict any more. It is still a cold conflict in the West — for now.
But the conflict is now an open one and to some extent that will redefine politics in the West. It has already broken the old Tory/Labour duopoly in the UK. In the US the Bill Kristols and John Kennedys of the the GOP and Dem parties are gone with the wind.
These are not revolutionaries. These are all regular leftists you see every day, outright advocating for murder. Video
The biggest political shock I’ve had in my lifetime is seeing just how many Facebook friends and family lamented the fact the assassin missed.
I vastly underestimated their hatred for me as a MAGA conservative.
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