Mark Blyth (Professor of Political Economy at Brown University) has had a few talks about it. You can find them on youtube. Basic premise is that a lot of it is driven by economics disparity.Trump, Brexit, Bolsonaro, the alt-right, etc.
All of these movements took power at the same moment in time. Are there any political scientists that can explain what the hell has been happening this decade?
Yeah, especially after that PBS Frontline special about Facebook, it's hard not to make the connection.The spread of these ideals directly correlates with the rise and growth of Facebook and Twitter.
Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Decline in home values is linked to right wing swings in the US.Typically after recessions politics tend right, during prosperous periods it tends left
And I think the swings get more extreme as the decades go by
Along with a ton of other crazy factors though I'm sure
Who on the center left is pushing austerity? That's very much a right wing thing.i personally believe it to be a reaction to the imposition of neoliberal austerity. because the center left and right have aligned behind such punishing policies which have shattered normal peoples trust in the polity, a vacuum has been created where so called populists have found room to grow, often by preying on peoples fear and distrust - stoking paranoia about borders and race are effective and powerful ways of appealing to people already feeling deeply isolated and forgotten.
Your bizarre use of infantile is infantile.Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Internet + dumb racist people is q big factor.
Decline in home values is linked to right wing swings in the US.
Who on the center left is pushing austerity? That's very much a right wing thing.
Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Yes, it is fascism.Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
Merkel is not left by anyones standards, EU or NA.Merkel was a big proponent of austerity after the Great Recession and her country is now the focal point of a revived far-right in the form of AfD.
Brexit isn't "fascism" and your bizarre use of the word is infantile.
They really did a great job making it obvious by almost copying old Nazi propaganda
Agree. Conservatives, who are strict adherents to neoliberalism, tend to be the ones that become fascists. The question is why..
The recession is a much bigger reason.The spread of these ideals directly correlates with the rise and growth of Facebook and Twitter.
Yes the Democrats who *check notes* passed a stimulus and who did not support austerity measures.
You know whyAgree. Conservatives, who are strict adherents to neoliberalism, tend to be the ones that become fascists. The question is why..
If you are in the same voting bloc as all the fascists you need to take a hard look in the mirror.That was a totally disgusting poster. The idea that the 17.4m people that subsequently voted for Brexit support fascism is absolutely mental, though.
Fear, propaganda, racism and economic pressures from the 1% taking all the worlds financial gains the last 30 years.
It's mostly a delayed response to the Great Recession and its aftermath, which saw the enactment of harsh austerity policies in Europe that galvanized the far-right and other euroskeptic movements (UKIP and Brexit). In the United States, Trump is a rebuke to an establishment elite that failed to heed the problems of the poor after the Great Recession. In Brazil, Bolsonaro represents the backlash to Dilma's inept governance and the Lava Jato scandal that exposed the corruption of Brazil's government after 2008. The rise of the far-right is tied to the Great Recession.
Fucking up the German recovery postWW1 by being overly harsh is pretty applicable to the austerity bullshit.Correlation doesn't equal causation and all that, but World War II occurred not long after the Great Depression. I agree that far right ideology tends to thrive in times of economic hardship.