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Will Farage’s Trumpian strategy work against him? He has good reason to believe it won’t. Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racist and antisemitic bullying shows a deliberate Trump-style strategy: attack, deflect and drag everyone else down.
Rather than apologise, Farage accuses elites and institutions like the BBC of hypocrisy, framing himself as the victim of double standards. This norm-breaking approach keeps him on the offensive, dominates the media agenda and energises his supporters. Farage’s aim is not credibility or innocence, but widespread cynicism, undermining trust in media, politics and moral authority so no one appears better than him. He believes contempt for elites, not respectability, is his strongest political fuel.
