>>96943107
40k continues to be a fantastic Rorschach test and projection screen.
If it was, in fact, a dig at anything it would be a dig at England's own empire gone, and brexit movement.
But it isn't. The Imperium has heavy themes around being a rotting empire that can never relive the glory days. It's just a trope endimic tonthe setting. You gonna call Iyandin a dig at Congress because a bunch of living corpses are running it? Whatever current movement you pick out to insist it's exactly that just shows your own narrowness.
You'd read Asimov's Foundation and say "this is about the Soviet Union, explicitly"