Professor David Betts
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likely to be a series of outrages, which are designed to bring the elite back into heel, to bring the elite back into a situation where they are performing their end of the social contract.
And at present, there is a strong feeling, it must be said, throughout the Western world, this isn't specifically a UK problem or an American problem, but it's very typical throughout
most Western countries primarily motivated through migration policy, but other things, de-industrialization, over-financialization, other things which have significantly affected the mass while enriching the elite.
So I think the difference in the United States to me is that
Whereas that in the United States, you have in the figure of President Trump, someone who is genuinely serving what he understands to be the national interest.
He does wish to preserve the United States as a historical, political, cultural entity, whereas that's very questionable with respect to European elites.
It's hard to point to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as someone who really has any kind of
strong faction for the country which he rules.
It's a person who I think is
almost quintessentially post-nationalist in his orientation.
So that changes the dynamic considerably.
Rightly or wrongly, I think that there are multiple masses of angry people in the United States, but one fraction of that mass considers that the person in the White House is on their side.
Whereas in the UK, in France, in Germany and in other places, there isn't that sense that there is...
an elite faction, which is in fact on the side of the somewheres, people who are rooted in their place and wish to survive as cohesive national entities.
That's, I think, quite a big difference between the two situations.
native population and recent migrants, these being the divisions.
The splits have already materialized.
It's not really hard to detect them at all.
You can observe it very simply by walking around certain cities in the UK, certain neighborhoods, in fact, in the UK.
One of the more important phenomenon that has occurred in the last year, the arising of organic grassroots raise the flag movements, which are demarcating neighborhoods throughout the country in a very obvious way, which is highly typical of societies that are in a proto-insurgent state.
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