Well if the vast majority of people in this country are weird sadists then obviously organising for progressive politics is very hard and organising for fascism is very easy.
But I‘m not sure that is true, or that if it is true that this is some genetic quirk rather than a learned behaviour.
Whether it’s true or not, I don’t think this really alters my position. Because people lashing out at the establishment is understandable even if they have expressed it badly. I think we need to wrestle that anti-establishment impulse away from stock-brokers like Farage and deploy it in different ways. The only way to do that is by building bridges with people, by orientating our politics around our shared needs and what we have in common.
Well it's obviously not true, or even close to true. The Tories have a huge majority in parliament on the basis of under 44% of the popular vote - multiply that by the turnout and it's under 30% of eligible voters. But we have FPTP and the not-the-Tories vote is split between Labour, two medium-sized parties and several smaller parties, so he we are.
Edit: and anyone who thinks they're "lashing out at the establishment" by doing exactly what Jacob Rees-Mogg has told them to is, to put it bluntly, a fucking idiot. But it's clear to me that the most representative Brexit supporters aren't anti-establishment at all. They're cap-doffers and forelock-tuggers who bloody love the establishment. What they hate is uppity know-alls who read the Guardian, and immigrants.