The far right is having a moment in Europe. Actually, everywhere | An expert explains recent (and maybe soon-to-be) far-right victories in Europe

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  1. In Germany, it is somewhat crumbling, luckily. The complete imbecility of the AfD seems finally to become too obvious.

  2. I know the two are not connected, but for anyone familiar with the spaniard party Vox it’s ironic to see a portal with the same name warning about the rise of the far right

  3. Not too surprising with rising inequality, increasing poverty and the looming recession. The right was always good at turning the dull anger of the masses into votes. The simpleminded are easy marks for empty promises and convenient lies esp if seasoned with a lot of national pride. Predictably l, it never ends well, never, not once

  5. Seems that history is destined to be repeated again and again. That’s why antifascists are needed as much as good education.

  8. As long as the left shows nothing but contempt of the working classes they have nowhere else to turn but the far right parties.

  10. Mostly because the left are a bunch of incompetent idiots who left companies relocate and did nothing to fight the absurd wealth distribution.

  11. The traditional parties don’t seem to give a shit about fixing stuff for the people so what did they expect? Not saying it’s good or that I support far-right parties, but one should wonder why millions of people vote for radically different parties all of a sudden. Hint: the vast majority of them aren’t fascist, racist nazi’s. Most of them are just sick of getting fucked in the ass like usual.

  12. its just the consequences of 30 years of neoliberalism. the cup has been filling; now it is full

  14. Right-wing populists have simple solutions to complex problems…. that don‘t work of course.

    But simple solutions are popular with people who have an hour a week to understand the complexity of the world.

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