Some weeks before the American presidential election, Robert Paxton, the most distinguished American historian of 20th century France — and author of a classic book on fascism — abandoned his previous scepticism about designating Donald Trump as a fascist. What changed his mind was 6 January. To Paxton, the assault on the Capitol was dangerously reminiscent of the anti-parliamentary riots that took place in Paris on 6 February 1934, an event that many on the French Left saw as a botched ...| UnHerd
A common method of intimidation in Dutch gang warfare is to hang an illegal Cobra firework on your opponent’s front door and then run away. The method is not dissimilar to that of greying, far-Right politician Geert Wilders, who, less than a year after his Freedom Party (PVV) joined the government coalition, has just blown it all up.| UnHerd