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What’s fuelling the rise of the far right? (sh.itjust.works)
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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?

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[–] 3 points 45 minutes ago

The dynamic is quite different around the world.

For one, most other Western democracies have multi-party systems where the choice is not restricted to just moderate conservatives and fascists.

Secondly, many of these democracies where the popularity of fascists has surged are doing much better than the US economically.

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