People suffering from Frenchness

You have to really fire up your imagination to excuse this stuff: threats of invasion, attempts to undermine democracy, the use of violence, the targeting of minorities, language of national rebirth through strong-man leadership and a bloke doing a fascist salute, in case the rest was too subtle.

Quick emergency pod on what's happening out there. A US administration basically just ticking off the checklist you'd find in any book on fascism and a broadcast media which seems intent on normalising it.