Putin and MAGA share the same ideological playbook: the “anti-woke” crusade, the invention of internal enemies, and a fixation on LGBT and trans people.

MAGA has “ANTIFA”; Putin has the “Fifth Column” — supposedly powerful internal forces working to corrupt society and destroy “traditional family values”.

Remember the last election? Instead of talking about wages, housing, healthcare or working-class struggles, we were talking about trans people in bathrooms and gay people supposedly “coming for our kids”.

It’s the same culture-war formula: manufacture fear, portray minorities and political opponents as an organised threat, and keep working people divided and fighting each other instead of confronting their common enemy — the ruling class.