What’s here today is gone tomorrow – but will likely be back again at some point soon. That’s the mantra that underlies the rise and fall of every trend, from beards to lava lamps to bell-bottom trousers.
Political ideologies are subject to the same rules as everything else. And back on trend this season is communism. Whether it’s Ash Sarkar, senior editor at nu-media site Novara, shouting down Piers Morgan with the words, “I’m literally a communist, you idiot”, or Goldsmith’s LGBTQ Twitter account “debunking” Soviet gulags.
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