By TONY MOBILIFONITIS
Winston Marshall, a former member of the music group Mumford and Sons and host of The Winston Marshall Show, very eloquently put the case for populism at an Oxford debate, attended by old guard leftist Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Pelosi interjected in Marshall’s speech when he touched on the hypocrisy of what he called “the new establishment, the globalist left”, who made a great hullabaloo about the January 6th 2020 riot and shooting at the US Congress while ignoring Antifa’s attempt to burn down the Federal Court in Portland, Oregon (and the riots across the US over the George Floyd death).
“You are not … there is no equivalence there, so, but it is not like what happened on January 6th, which was an insurrection incited by the President of the United States,” said Pelosi, reciting the official narrative of the false flag event that clearly involved a team of provocateurs run by the FBI who dramatically smashed windows of the building to gain entry just as Congressional police opened the doors to let the crowds walk in.
Marshall went on to cover the election of Trump in 2016 and how the elite media began to complain about democracy because it had been somehow betrayed by his election. “I’ll tell you what is a threat to democracy, it’s Brussels, DC, Westminster, the mainstream media, big tech, big pharma, corporate collusion and the Davos cronies. The threat to democracy comes from those who write off ordinary people at deplorables,” said Marshall, referencing Hillary Clinton’s notorious quip.
Marshall hit the headlines March 2021 after tweeting praise for Andy Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. “Congratulations @MrAndyNgo. Finally had to time read your important book. You’re a brave man,” he wrote.
The tweet sparked a firestorm of fury from people accusing him of “supporting fascism”, after which Marshall backed down and apologised, sparking further outcry from people attacking him for apologising and playing into the typical leftist game of public shaming. He eventually left the band and back then described himself as “centrist, liberal or bit this, bit that” and averse to Left-Right binary political discourse.
However, at the Oxford debate last month Marshall left no doubt about his support for the political movement called populism that is gaining impetus around the world as part of the global awakening to the threat posed by the elitist globalism of the World Economic Forum.