For the little people, for the real people
Of course. Nigel Farage teams up with Trump to give the Two Worst White Assholes show.
Farage won cheers by sticking to his time-honed rhetoric of slightly shaggy populism, low on specifics but heavy with generalist calls to national pride and taking back control.
“I think that you have a fantastic opportunity here,” he told the crowd. “With this campaign, you can go out, you can beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, you can beat Washington. And you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain.
“My advice for you – if you want change in this country, you’d better get your walking boots on, you’d better get out there campaigning. And remember, anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up against the establishment.”
Yeah, the establishment! Which Trump and Farage are totally on the outside of, peering in famished like little toilet-lickers from Dickens.
Also familiar to Farage-watchers was the seamless glossing over of contradictions. Here was a privately educated former City trader standing alongside a hereditary tycoon to announce that Brexit was “for the little people, for the real people”.
Because the real Establishment is…erm…people who drink weird coffee.
Power to the people!
“And you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain.”
So giving most of the country buyer’s remorse?
For a second there, I thought you meant powder to the people. How soon is it November 5, anyway?