This one is going to have two parts. Part 1 (linked above) presents some reasons for resisting the use of titles. Part 2 will then respond to what I take to be the most plausible defense of the use of academic titles.

What's going on with Labour in the UK seems to support this skepticism: tacking hard to the right on immigration seems to have only added fuel to Reform's fire.

Could embracing anti-immigrant rhetoric be enough, even if low-immigration policies don't placate the electorate? I'm skeptical. If everyone agrees immigrants are a big problem, why settle for the Anti-Immigration Lite? Particularly if that's who has been in charge up to now?

Part of the problem is suggested by the third tweet in the thread: if you have even a few immigrants behaving badly, the far right will seize on those examples and amplify them. Hard to see how you stop this unless you expel basically all immigrants from your country.

Japan has one of the strictest immigration policies in the developed world. If the far right can still make big gains there, this suggests that bringing about low absolute levels of immigration isn't enough to stop the far right.

Here is the ideas hobbyism thread linked to in the third screenshot: x.com/jessespaffor...

If you don’t know anything about libertarianism or the Cato Institute, don’t post about them!

Noticed that ICE in Los Angeles has started carrying spare tires in the bed of their pickups

This is exactly what happened with the tariffs: Trump implements a pointless policy based purely on malice and then has to immediately walk it back once he finally realizes what effect the policy will have on his supporters.