Nigel Farage, UKIP's Trumpian Leader, Wants His Country Back

Last Thursday morning, UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage proudly unveiled his party’s latest European Union referendum campaign poster. “BREAKING POINT,” screeched the billboard, “The EU has failed us all.” Pictured behind Farage was a long, snaking line of migrants and refugees, presumably headed straight for Britain’s shores.

That afternoon, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered; the accused gave his name in court as “Death to traitors, freedom to Britain.” Writing in The Spectator, Alex Massie wrote, “When you shout BREAKING POINT over and over again, you don’t get to be surprised when someone breaks. When you present politics as a matter of life and death, as a question of national survival, don’t be surprised if someone takes you at your word. You didn’t make them do it, no, but you didn’t do much to stop it either.”

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