The olden times approach pioneered by The New York Times involved the incessant repetition of “far-right” when writing about anyone or anything center or right-of-center on the political spectrum. The most moderate Republicans would occasionally be portrayed as part of the radical right.
In tandem with the incorrect overuse of “far-right” was the complete absence of “far-left” or “leftists” when writing about Democrats. The goal, of course, was to condition people to believe that Democrats and the positions they championed were mainstream, and that all things Republican were out of step with everyday Americans.
Here, the author is laughably making the case that United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a centrist. He’s presiding over a country where a woman was arrested for texting a homophobic slur that she used to describe a man who had brutally assaulted her and put her in the hospital. A country that’s also officially run interference for immigrant rape gangs because it didn’t want to be “Islamophobic.”
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