It’s been a little bonkers to see how each country is so engrained in its own 19th century expression of this, too; the American version is *American* by way of challenging the Reconstruction Amendments and empowering robber barons. The British version is very *British* with lots of glorification

The entire conservative legal movement and philosophy of “originalism” is premised on the illegitimacy of any SCOTUS decision that doesn’t fit the GOP party platform

Most definitely. And what's more striking to me is the non-foreign agents aiding and abetting this. Congressman and Senators who surely see what is going on but put their own self-interests over the good of the country.