The American far right brain can& #39;t process the scale of the protests and the participation of white in solidarity ... so they are framed as "Antifa" ... just as striking 20c workers were called "Reds" 1/ I expect Trump will pick this up first thing... but consider the logic...

2/ If Antifascism is the modern proxy for communism, the scale of the right& #39;s project is revealed... ending democracy and the rule of law for starters

3/ The danger in this moment is huge - Trump knows he& #39;s finished if the November election goes ahead ... so he& #39;s wrecking the global order as fast as possible; the right are preparing a quasi-insurgency against Biden...

4/ So the right& #39;s script will be different this time: every conspiracy theory is set to merge all the Trumpian "others" - the left, black America, migrants, feminism and China - into a single Big Other pinned on The Democratic Party....

5/5 From a UK perspective, reading Cummings& #39; blog fantasies about the "collapse of China before the West has to engage in warfare with it" (cf Allison) - it& #39;s not China that looks like a failed state this morning.