Another brilliant take from the mind that brought us "Liz Cheney and Democrats' big tent strategy: Why courting Republicans works for Kamala Harris".
Look, I'm glad that these far right parties are losing. But it's going to take so much more than a few center-left parties winning one election cycle to end the rise of the authoritarian right.
they'll never reverse the neoliberalism, which means things will continue to get worse for the working class, which means fascist parties will continue to rise
The problem is that far right parties are losing, because other parties assimilate their politics.
afd has never been more powerful, and Reform is possibly the most popular party in the UK
Was going to say, those recent UK council elections where Reform won 30% of the vote kinda disprove this.
That's nice to hear.
Not to contradict, but to add: Trumpism was a thing pre Trump. Philippines/Duterte (the father) to cite just one. Of course one might argue that Trumpism has always been a thing, but there were a few direct precursors of this specific brand of social media fueled "pseudo-populism".
We all hope it fails so miserably that whoever looked up to the USA will have learned their lesson (and the USA themeselves of course). Sorry, Americans.
Romania would like to object.
As would Germany. Things aren’t sounding great for the UK either.
At least our suffering is helping others.