When I saw this headline on one of my students' facebook feeds, I thought it was from The Onion, sort of like their classic
"Drugs Win Drug War". Actually, it's from respectable UK publication
The Telegraph.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNYEWhDRKNDXV44lfFN3uO8GhdsN3lNmJVd2ry4g0p2nfp0cmtOikloMLP9dX9VoxSyJDPIDGL2-DS138qjddQo2v6erSI6M76QPGfV5BlUvvK5C1dk_NCEDzsh5I6hBS0n9GwKdOkBgM/s400/Picture+1.png)
I think the reporter heard some old-fashioned hell-in-a-handbasket rhetoric from far-right figures and thought it was something new. People had been telling me that what the British press says about American politics needs to be salted a little bit, and this would seem to be a case in point.
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