The U.S. and the U.K. are not in the grips of the far right. They’re in the grips of the farcical right. It’s a big difference. The far right mastered imagery-manufacture to promote a political ideology. The farcical right uses political ideology to promote imagery-manufacture. The conservative movement has been overtaken by performative stupidity. Trump is a man who cannot dress himself properly. He tells so many lies and makes so many mistakes it’s nearly impossible to list them. But he’s hilarious. In Britain, Johnson is a similar figure of fun. He is famous for driving expensive cars which are falling apart, for showing up unprepared to events, for his Bertie Wooster-ish ability to fall ass-backwards into triumph. On a smaller scale, Canada was a pioneer of right-wing nonsense: When Toronto found out that Mayor Rob Ford was smoking crack, his approval ratings went up. Ford’s brother Doug, widely reported to be a drug dealer in his youth, is now premier of Ontario.