This happened in Canada recently too and I can’t help but think it’s an op in the vein of Russiagate.
Most people have absolutely no basis on which to understand how far right tendencies are inevitable under capitalism. So it’s really easy to sell them stories about foreign interference to both comfort them that far right tendencies aren’t an organic growth from the current conditions and it helps drum up more China/Russia/villain-of-the-week hate to be leveraged later on.
This happened in Canada recently too and I can’t help but think it’s an op in the vein of Russiagate.
Most people have absolutely no basis on which to understand how far right tendencies are inevitable under capitalism. So it’s really easy to sell them stories about foreign interference to both comfort them that far right tendencies aren’t an organic growth from the current conditions and it helps drum up more China/Russia/villain-of-the-week hate to be leveraged later on.