The left has become unrecognisable, not least because anti-Semitism has become one of its silent partners. It was integral to the far right in the last century. It now inhabits the far left.
There’s another reversal worth mentioning. In the last quarter of the 20th century, the bastion of political correctness was the religious far right. The left’s default position was irreverence and mockery. Its bastion is now the far left and Trump and his ilk are ingenious in finding ways of ridiculing it.
What explains this reversal in the political landscape?
It becomes noticeable in…
