Hard-right parties are now Europe’s most popular

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1. 1k+ words paywalled article about “hard-right parties”. No definition of a “hard-right party”.

   >We drew on research from the University of Bremen and PopuList, a pan-European dataset of populist political parties, to form a list.

   Cool. How about spending additional 15 seconds to provide an actual reference, or even better, the actual list. So that I don’t have to spend my time only to find out that [https://popu-list.org/](https://popu-list.org/) (the primary source) only classifies parties as “populist”, “far-left”, “far-right” and “eurosceptic”. With no distinction between “hard-right” and “conservative”.

   Not to mention how biased that dataset seems to be after reading a couple of “country reports”.

   Peak journalism right there. Who pays for this?

2. After what’s happened in America, a lot of Europeans are very weary of Russia and its dubious stranglehold over politicians outside and in Europe.

   A lot of people I talk to started to realise that the far right might be compromised by Russian influence and money.

   And yes, a lot of people are still badmouthing immigration policies, European policies and the war in Ukraine. But the hatred for Russia is palpable here. It trumps far right talking points and popularity by a large margin nowadays. There is a great mental shift going on.

   Only the most imbecilic, semi-conscious people are regurgitating Russian/American talking points now. A lot of right wing oriented people are watching what Europe as a whole will do and maybe act more rational. There is a sliver of hope.

   Btw, Putin is forgetting that most neo-nazi’s still hate Russia and it’s maffia-communism with a passion. They haven’t forgotten WW2, they havent forgotten MH-17 and they sure as hell haven’t forgotten the shit Trump just pulled.

3. Hard-right differs between Europe and USA doesn’t it?

   In all of my scrolling I can see alignment on immigration, but not on many other issues (like Russia, social welfare, civil liberties).

   That said, I can only learn so much scrolling through all this noise.

   Any locals care to weigh in?

4. This looks like guesswork really. Take the UK for example, the tories are big tent so all the far right people had a home there until they didn’t, then they joined reform so it’s not always easy to state that support is all new or just the same people with the same views ticking a different box.

5. You can be against immigrants/refugees from MENA and be anti-LGBTQ and pro-Ukraine/anti-russia. These stances are not inherently mutually exclusive, except the culture war has made things look binary. Emphasis on “made things look.”

   Stop letting mentally deranged clowns and their ideologically captured cheerleaders dicatate your public image. The sooner the left-of-centre acknowledge that they have allowed the far-left to gaslight them (left-of-centre) into thinking people actually support migrants from MENA and “gender affirming care” for minors, the sooner they can rebuild their populist credentials and actually get working-class votes again.

6. Most popular, but only by plurality. That shows the hard right having 25% support, which is higher than everyone else, but it also means that 75% are NOT on their side.

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