Clarissa's Blog

Reader el left a link to a great article in Russian whose author observes that even though the US is clearly to the right of Western Europe politically, neo-fascist parties are a lot likely to win in Europe than in the US. And he’s right, far-right parties are pretty much guaranteed to come to power in the Netherlands and France. Germany runs that risk, too.

My explanation is that the Western European left is so impotent, so incapable of addressing any of what normal people normally care about in their normal lives that it’s easier for the far right to make itself sound kind of relevant. (In spite of being manufactured and run by crazy Putin.)  Here in the US, however, there is an alternative to the craziness, and it’s an actual working alternative. Hopefully, we will not let it wither away and die under the influence of wide-eyed freaks.