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Raheem Kassam, former chief advisor to UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, on stage during a Free Tommy Robinson and Pro-Trump joint rally Whitehall, London
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RAHEEM KASSAM has become one of the spokesmen for the “Free Tommy” movement and that’s a bad sign.
That’s not because Kassam is a super-effective player on the right — most of his projects have crashed and burnt or sputtered along — but because Kassam is a wannabe and an opportunist.
And if the latest hard-right project is attracting careerists as well as ideologues, that’s a sign something is happening.
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