You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

Worse. The UK can step in and run things to some degree in NI. No fallback in the US.

Everyone in America is right wing.

Remind you again that the premise of this thread is incorrect?

It's easy when the notion that countries such as North Korea and China are fascist is called out for being a complete fabrication because they have been for decades and remain today far left communist basket cases and that's before the fact that Russia's current behaviour is influenced by their Soviet past more than a casually assigned label of fascism handed to them by Western lefties is raised.

But but but, the Republican party has some moderately unpleasant members, let's cower in fear of them while North Korea tests new missile technology and states its intentions of ramping up their nuclear arsenal.

Back in reality the threats are coming from far right and far left extremism in some times equal and other times not so equal measure not just the right wing as stated in this thread.

Not even slightly incorrect. Your whataboutism is just that - the threat to western democracy today, is coming from the right. Arguably, it's here - the uptick in right-wing sponsored terrorism is real. The putative behavior of the 'Insurrection caucus' in the Republican party, all right wing. Russia is a right-wing kleptocracy, with strong backing of a very right-wing religious organizations.

Likewise, the amusing side-discussion about WWII is just that, that was then. This thread's about the now, and really, the simple question is, if you had money to spend on preventing terrorism and threats internally in some place like Ireland, where would you spend it? Mointoring left wingers, or monitoring RuZZians and the RuZZian embassys, as well as the Irexit types?

The thread isn't exclusively talking about threats to western democracy.

Everything negative is identified as right wing by posters like you. Russia is led by people who were born and raised in the biggest and most destructive far left regime in history, many of these people are convinced Russia was better off during the soviet era and want to return to a similar system, they're even attempting to annex neighbouring countries like they did during the soviet era but according to you their fascists?

Far left ideologies are just as negative as fsr right ideologies and routinely they end up mirroring each other in their actions, but in the over simplified opinions of modern Western lefties everything negative is right wing.

Sorry but that's complete and utter nonsense.

@Igotadose 'Russia is a right-wing kleptocracy, with strong backing of a very right-wing religious organizations.'

There was a puppet-church during the Soviet era too, and even a differently-flavoured left-wing or non-ideological regime might use the Russian Orthodox Church as its puppet because why not?

I think your posts are hysterical.

If Kevin McCarthy can't get the support of 20 Repubs that's tough. Why don't the Democrats vote for him themselves if his non-nomination is such a threat to democracy?

I think in the present day in America the fringe right wing is more influential then the fringe left wing. That can be seen by fringe right wing figures dining with Trump possibly the next president at his golf resort, the fringe right of the republican party flexing their muscles today and the open admiration by right wing figures Trump and Tucker Carlson for the fascist Putin and his actions in Ukraine.

Much depends on definitions on far right, right, left and far left. I think it’s fair to say these definitions are shifting rapidly in less than a generation.

Not that long ago, the notion of a US President giving free money to people during a pandemic would have been considered socialist. Now that President is considered by many to be far right.

Powerful multi billion corporations are usually seen as conservative but some have convinced the public that they are left wing.

Again Fascist Putin. Sorry but this is lazy BS.

Fascism in point of fact is a revolutionary movement that dismantles the existing order of a country and rebuilds it in a new radical image.

That is not what Russia is, Russia under Putin is acting in a blend of historically Russian ways, a cult of personality built around an autocratic leader looking to resurrect an idealised version of what they perceive historical Russia to be.

This happened under the Tzars and it informed the expansionist attitude of Soviet Russia. It's hard wired into the Russian psyche and its being played out by a leader and an inner circle of men who pine for the glory days of the USSR.

Putin is a lot of things, none of them good but he doesn't meet the particular criteria required to be accurately labelled a fascist.

A fascist is someone who supports or promotes fascism—a system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully and often violently suppressing opposition and criticism, controlling all industry and commerce, and promoting nationalism and often racism.

That is the dictionary definitiopn of a fascist. I see all those things in Putins Russia maybe you don't? Are you going to say he is not right wing now or is left wing? I'm not sure why you pick out one word in my post since it still doesnt make the Fringe Right Wing commentators support for him , or their hatred for Zelensky, look any better.

So your opinion trumps everyone else's?

Of course it does.