Tusk promised on his 2023 campaign trail to undo the near-total ban on abortion introduced by the PiS government.
what many women see as Tusk’s most glaring broken promise: failing to overturn the near-total abortion ban imposed by PiS.
Tusk promised on his 2023 campaign trail to undo the near-total ban on abortion introduced by the PiS government.
what many women see as Tusk’s most glaring broken promise: failing to overturn the near-total abortion ban imposed by PiS.
Billionaires were quite shy about being right wing political activists in an environment where fascist activism was bad for business.
But when Thiel, Murdoch and their cronies went ahead and not only didn’t get dinged for their crap but became more powerful because of it that became not just easier, but their default stance.
The neofascist movement didn’t start with billionaires. It didn’t even start with Steve Bannon rotting away at Breitbart. It started in 4chan and crappy websites and extremist online groups deploying relatively subtle examples of what we now recognize as culture wars and then the far-right media learning that lesson and leveraging it to take control of right wing politics.
Nobody in the left deployed those tools anywhere near that successfully at the time, and they still don’t. And now there are fewer billionaires willing to bankroll them as a PR move, so it’s harder.