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Don’t be fooled – the ‘culture wars’ over face masks are a trick
By focusing on cultural issues not economic ones, cultural warriors hope to portray the Tories as being the voice of ‘ordinary people’ and Labour as being a bit weird, warns SOLOMON HUGHES

WHEN it comes to masks in shops, we have a small illustration of how a “culture war” works, and how to fight it.
Some parts of the left have got very worried about the weapons the right waves about in a culture war.
A culture war is a US description of backlash politics that shifts the argument from economics to issues of “traditional” culture.
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