https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/16/the-hysterical-entitlement-of-the-stop-trump-protests/
Are Britain’s bourgeois activists doing okay? Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK is set to take place this week, and I am starting to seriously worry about the mental well being of the middle-class rent-a-mob.
Those planning to protest against the Great Orange Menace seem to have genuinely mistaken the US president’s two-day jaunt in Windsor for Mussolini’s march on Rome or the Nazis rolling into Paris. A viral video by the Stop Trump Coalition, fronted by professional activist Zoe Gardner, warns that fascism is about to take over Britain, pretty much as soon as The Donald touches down on UK soil.
‘How our nation reacts [to his visit] decides everything about our future’, intones Gardner gloomily. Apparently, unless we all show up to Wednesday’s ‘Trump Not Welcome’ protest in Parliament Square, then a dystopian, Trumpian century awaits. Miss the demo, then you’d better start practising your best Sieg Heil and hiding migrants in your attic.
The alleged indignities of a ‘Trump Britain’ are spelled out in the video through a series of mock news reports. These include a ‘literal genocide’ and a state-run paramilitary ‘British Defence League’, whose officers would disappear migrants ‘without a trace’. And, horror of horrors, large England flags being draped from Tower Bridge. Worse still, no one has taken the flags down, even though ‘complaints have been lodged’ with the authorities. Hell on Earth, indeed.
Let’s be honest, it is not ‘fascism’ the plummy anti-Trump protesters are really objecting to. Because Trump is not a fascist, nor anything remotely close. It is democracy – the will of the American people, who have now installed him in the White House twice – that most disturbs the activist set.