Fascism has been on the rise, but I doubt it will take over in the traditional western Europe. It’s mostly Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
AfD in Germany is mostly popular in the old East Germany part, and will never become big enough to take power.
Democracies in Western Europe are strong enough to contain it, they may get some influence, but if they do, they are very likely to fade away again.
UK and USA are dysfunctional 2 party democracies, which makes the problem much more serious, because people are pissed their democracies don’t represent the people.
You’re going to be very surprised how well fascism does in Western Europe. It always starts simple, with immigration. Blaming them for the economy, etc. Then slowly the minorities are blamed and stripped of their rights. There’s often a moral majority too, so anyone not [whatever religion] is bad.
If you hear things like, “I’m sick of hearing the <minority> making everything about their <minority status>” then you know the slope is getting slippery.
Fascism has been on the rise, but I doubt it will take over in the traditional western Europe. It’s mostly Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
AfD in Germany is mostly popular in the old East Germany part, and will never become big enough to take power.
Democracies in Western Europe are strong enough to contain it, they may get some influence, but if they do, they are very likely to fade away again.
UK and USA are dysfunctional 2 party democracies, which makes the problem much more serious, because people are pissed their democracies don’t represent the people.
You’re going to be very surprised how well fascism does in Western Europe. It always starts simple, with immigration. Blaming them for the economy, etc. Then slowly the minorities are blamed and stripped of their rights. There’s often a moral majority too, so anyone not [whatever religion] is bad.
If you hear things like, “I’m sick of hearing the <minority> making everything about their <minority status>” then you know the slope is getting slippery.