The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

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Something is happening among America’s allies, and it’s a tremendous relief. For some years now, we’ve seen the MAGA-infused global right gaining a foothold amongst western democracies, largely driven by the same demagogic, nationalist, pseudo-populism that has fueled Donald Trump’s dominance on the American right.

Some countries like Hungary have served as a sort of experiment for the kind of post-democratic autocracies dreamt of by the modern right wing in which government co-opts, intimidates and de-legitimizes the political opposition to create an authoritarianism that dominates the culture and the politics without a lot of overt violence.

But the rise of the far right among the Western allies seems to be stalling out.

    • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
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      35 minutes ago

      I always say I have to be hit over the head with a frying pan to learn my lesson, but jesus I could tell Trump was not good for America when he started running for his first term.

      And now I’ll suffer for it because I’m part of the “parasite” class.

      • michel@lemmy.ml
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        26 minutes ago

        And the Republican Party is obviously a lost cause when they held that CPAC conference in Budapest of all places