Screaming, lying and denying, the British right blames everyone but itself for the disaster it has brought on the country

Trumpism in the UK

Farage and Trump, goofing around

There’s a comforting theory that people change in response to defeat. It’s comforting because it implies that commonsense wins through in the end. Extremists learn from their failures. They accept the need to compromise and settle down to life in a new consensus.

Historians teach that, after going down to a landslide defea…