Tell me: who has done more for the cause of anti-fascism? Real anti-fascism? Those masked mummy’s boys of the Antifa movement for whom ‘fighting fascism’ means little more than hurling abuse at blue-collar oiks who voted for Donald Trump? Or Donald Trump himself, the man they love to loathe, who today accomplished the miraculous feat of liberating 20 Israelis from the anti-Semitic hell of Hamas captivity? It’s Trump, isn’t it?

Today should be the day that Trump Derangement Syndrome is laid to rest

As of today, following the soul-stirring emancipation of the last living Israeli hostages, whenever I hear the phrase ‘anti-fascist’ I will think of Trump. Forget those sun-starved digital radicals who bark ‘Fascist!’ at Nigel Farage or the snotty lefties whose ‘anti-fascism’ entails yelling at working-class mums in pink tracksuits as they protest outside migrant hotels. Those people have sullied the noble cause of anti-fascism by appropriating it as a mask for their bourgeois sneering.

No, it was Trump who took the fight to fascism. He has cornered – we hope – a brutal organisation that was founded with the express........

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