Exclusive: analysis of results in 31 countries last year found 32% of votes were cast for parties that are populist, far-left or far-right
    • Riddick3001OPEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      saying “fascist”

      Not really, it’s more both the extreme left and right groups, that people are flocking to. There’s a clear graph in the article.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 year ago

        I think it’s a bit of a false equivalence given that the fascist-adjacent right is significantly larger than the populist left.

        Sure, the weird tankies are also a problem, but it’s misleading to suggest the scale of the issues are equal.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          The only people that actually fight the Nazis are also an issue? Cause when push-comes-to-shove, liberals always side with the Nazis…

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        And considering there have been declines in the extreme-left in favor of the extreme-right (for example the case of Die Linke in Germany), it’s clear that a huge chunk of voters don’t care about the difference.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Almost one-third of Europeans now vote for populist, far-right or far-left parties, research shows, with wide support for anti-establishment politics surging across the continent in an increasingly problematic challenge to the mainstream.

    In a sign of how far the rise of the nativist, authoritarian far right has shifted Europe’s politics rightwards, the researchers considered classifying several of the continent’s better-known centre-right parties as borderline far-right.

    “We talked a lot about reclassifying the UK’s Conservatives, Mark Rutte’s VVD in the Netherlands, Les Républicains in France and the ÖVP in Austria,” Rooduijn said.

    Critics say populists in power often subvert democratic norms, undermining the judiciary and media or restricting minority rights, sometimes in ways that will long outlast their mandates.

    Andrea Pirro, another of the study’s co-authors and a comparative political scientist at the University of Bologna, said the mainstream – the big, catch-all centre-right and centre-left parties – was partly to blame.

    Cas Mudde, a professor in international affairs at the University of Georgia who formulated the widely accepted definition of populism, said core support for anti-establishment, particularly radical right parties had not actually grown much.

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