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The sight of 100,000 protestors marching through London under the banner of the far-right was a jarring spectacle. The rhetoric, the tactics, and the sheer organizational slickness felt alien to many, an importation of a distinctly American style of political grievance. When the protest was amplified by a broadcast message from Elon Musk, an American oligarch, calling for the overthrow of the British government, the source of this new energy became impossible to ignore. This was not a spontaneous, grassroots uprising. The demonstration on British streets was the product of a well-funded, highly organized, and long-standing transatlantic project to export…