It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.
In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.
Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.
Now I’m not political, but it feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?
Right wing popularity is fueled by anxiety and wealth inequality.
The idea that the right gains popularity after the left institutes left wing policies is a right wing talking point, not fact. Left leaning policies enjoy popular support across almost all policy domains because they benefit many, whereas right leaning policies benefit few.
Blaming left leaning policies in the US is especially laughable because there are none. Not since the end of the civil rights era. Gay marriage, that’s it. And that really affects nothing compared to the impact of right wing policies like obamacare’s empowering of insurance corps, forgiving corporate crimes as “too big to fail”, forgiving US war criminals by not punishing them, etc. And that’s just obama.
When people are scared, a slightly greater percentage will agree that taking resources from the disadvantaged is the easiest solution.
And when the rich command far far greater resources they can use them to overcome the popular resistance to policies that benefit them and disadvantage people in general.
Fear and rising wealth concentration.