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Nafeez Ahmed

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Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

That's what concerns me, is that I don't really care whether Nadia Faraj is a Nazi, is he not a Nazi. That's not what this is about. This is about people in this network leveraging...

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

That's what concerns me, is that I don't really care whether Nadia Faraj is a Nazi, is he not a Nazi. That's not what this is about. This is about people in this network leveraging...

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

and mainstreaming Nazi organizations and acting as a funnel for those ideas and being influenced by those ideas and having their policies and their approaches influenced and then that becoming sanitized and mainstream and the general public doesn't have any idea that that's where it's actually coming from.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

and mainstreaming Nazi organizations and acting as a funnel for those ideas and being influenced by those ideas and having their policies and their approaches influenced and then that becoming sanitized and mainstream and the general public doesn't have any idea that that's where it's actually coming from.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

I think definitely the first thing that we need on the one hand is we need to call out these groups as for what they really are. And I think there's not enough understanding of that. That's why I wrote the book, is because I think there isn't really a kind of understanding, wait a minute, where are these groups coming from? How do they work?

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

I think definitely the first thing that we need on the one hand is we need to call out these groups as for what they really are. And I think there's not enough understanding of that. That's why I wrote the book, is because I think there isn't really a kind of understanding, wait a minute, where are these groups coming from? How do they work?

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

The other thing that I think needs to happen is when it comes to the change that parties like Labour are talking about, The biggest kind of thing that is missing is transformation, right? We talk about change. I mean, even the language of change has become so stale since like Obama kind of made hope and change, hope and change, hope and change.

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Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

The other thing that I think needs to happen is when it comes to the change that parties like Labour are talking about, The biggest kind of thing that is missing is transformation, right? We talk about change. I mean, even the language of change has become so stale since like Obama kind of made hope and change, hope and change, hope and change.

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Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

Literally every liberal party since then has kept using the same language. But do we feel that there is hope and change? Do ordinary people experience hope and change? I don't think majority of people voting for Trump unnecessarily would identify themselves. I'm a Nazi. I'm a racist. I don't like anyone.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

Literally every liberal party since then has kept using the same language. But do we feel that there is hope and change? Do ordinary people experience hope and change? I don't think majority of people voting for Trump unnecessarily would identify themselves. I'm a Nazi. I'm a racist. I don't like anyone.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

They definitely was weaponizing racist ideas and racist means to push people to take these, to kind of take those positions. But the reason people, I think the biggest driver was you know, people were living from paycheck to paycheck. You know, they're not seeing an improvement in their lives. They're not seeing, and that's the biggest issue.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

They definitely was weaponizing racist ideas and racist means to push people to take these, to kind of take those positions. But the reason people, I think the biggest driver was you know, people were living from paycheck to paycheck. You know, they're not seeing an improvement in their lives. They're not seeing, and that's the biggest issue.

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Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

Whereas when you look at what happened when Trump came back, it's extraordinary because Trump successfully packaged himself as I'm the guy who's going to tear everything down. This system, this deep state or whatever, administrative state as they call it, that big thing that is here, I'm going to tear it all down. And people liked that language.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

Whereas when you look at what happened when Trump came back, it's extraordinary because Trump successfully packaged himself as I'm the guy who's going to tear everything down. This system, this deep state or whatever, administrative state as they call it, that big thing that is here, I'm going to tear it all down. And people liked that language.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

They looked at him and thought, oh, you kind of feel like the outsider guy who can tear everything down. And it made Biden-Harris administration look like, oh, we're just the status quo guys tinkering with the system, which is insane. Because you look at what Trump actually stands for, and he's got the biggest number of billionaires in his party.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

They looked at him and thought, oh, you kind of feel like the outsider guy who can tear everything down. And it made Biden-Harris administration look like, oh, we're just the status quo guys tinkering with the system, which is insane. Because you look at what Trump actually stands for, and he's got the biggest number of billionaires in his party.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

If you look at what the policy agenda they're proposing, it's not going to help working people. It's going to do it worse. But here's the interesting thing that I see, It's not going to work, right? Because Trump already failed. He came in once. We had the pandemic. We had all this stuff. He couldn't deal with it. He mismanaged these crises. We're in this new era. People call it the polycrisis.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

If you look at what the policy agenda they're proposing, it's not going to help working people. It's going to do it worse. But here's the interesting thing that I see, It's not going to work, right? Because Trump already failed. He came in once. We had the pandemic. We had all this stuff. He couldn't deal with it. He mismanaged these crises. We're in this new era. People call it the polycrisis.

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

All the things kicking off, climate, energy, food, the economy, it's all getting worse, blah, blah, blah. It obviously shows that the system in itself is not working. We need a massive change. We need real systemic transformation. And I think that's where we're at. We're at this point where

Pod Save the UK
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich

All the things kicking off, climate, energy, food, the economy, it's all getting worse, blah, blah, blah. It obviously shows that the system in itself is not working. We need a massive change. We need real systemic transformation. And I think that's where we're at. We're at this point where