NZF supporters are our feral MAGA

I think NZF supporters are our feral MAGA.

This month Winston called me a ‘fat retard’ on Sean Plunkett’s radioactive hate grift platform and I was swamped by poorly spelt threats from a tsunami of lonely NZF supporters.

I’ve even had some stalking me and taking photos of me in public FFS.

When Winston sinks that low, it is permission for his feral culture war fanatics to go several steps further.

Winston is a man who has built a political career out of dog whistle personal attacks on minority, migrants and vulnerable groups.

Remember what he said about Benjamin Doyle, Rawiri’s facial tattoos, Harry Tam, Migrant Green MPs.

More than any other politician in recent years, Winston thrives on exploiting community divisions for political gain.

For him to play the perpetual victim is like the Taliban demanding to see the manager.

What we are seeing with NZF taking ACT and National vote is a function of the highly polarised political environment we operate in now.

If you are a cross-burning, banjo twanging redneck culture war boomer, you want your bigotry full strength, not the diet sugar free version that ACT are offering behind flimsy intellectual fig leaves or Luxon’s clumsy CEO KPI routine.

Thanks to social media hate algorithms, you want your bigotry to be full bodied and cruel and no one is offering up full bodied cruelty like NZF.

When Culture War Boomers like Chris Trotter refer to themselves as ‘conservative populists’, he’s really talking about being a cultural brownshirt.

NZF have more ‘Rob’s Mob’ populist hate than ACT can muster and thanks to the highly polarised online community, NZF are taking from ACT and National.

This dynamic has some way to run for NZF because if you look at the sub 5% threshold, there are still plenty of anti-vaxx freak shows that could give their vote to Winston, with Freedoms NZ going up 1.5 points to 2.3%.

Anti-Trans, climate denial, anti-Treaty, anti-vaccine, pro-Israel, pro-Trump, weaponised free speech – these are all the alt-right boomer culture warrior talking points and Winston’s anti-intellectualism is more appealing to the gumboots of NuZilind than Seymour’s zen poet routine.

The manner in which NZF have strangled the common good for their donors interests should be a shameful political embarrassment, but culture war malice is all that drives the average lonely NZF supporter so they simply ignore the venal self interest.

Only death will halt Winston, and once he’s gone the cult of personality built around NZF will implode because it will be a cargo cult without any cargo.

 

 

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