As the far right sinks its hooks deeper into European politics, we may see a new status quo: national governments at odds with progressive cities.
With last weekend’s elections in Sweden and the polling for next week’s election in Italy, Europe’s at a tipping point: in just about every major EU country, post-fascist parties now dominates the right. And in most countries, that fascist-dominated right is on track for government.
Europe’s aging nation states are finding themselves more like, say, Australia — dependent on migration for growth — and on the extreme right they’ve discovered how to mine opposition for votes.
In most of the old western European nations, the post-fascist parties have jumped to lead the right through a dual strategy of inspiring more conservative traditional voters with a rah-rah nationalism while bringing older, working-class voters — usually male, usually regional — over into the conservative camp. (It was this strategy that Morrison sought to ape in the 2019 election.)
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