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.
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It’s also because the immigration crisis and terrorist threat are perceived as being much bigger problems in Western Europe than in the U.S., and the European far-right nationalist parties claim to have solutions.
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Yes, Putin is closer and it’s easier for him to manufacture these crises.
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The Front National has no chance to come to power in France, not with its electoral system. Of course, they could be in 1st place after the 1st round but they have no chance in the second.
In fact, Trump has way more chances to win than the Front National.
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