The
extreme right is like a hodgepodge of ideas. That explains part of its current
strength.
I have looked at their political programmes, statements
and slogans. They bring together racist views and ultranationalist feelings with
proposals they stole from the left or even from the far left. That is their way
of casting the net wide and catching different categories of voters, from the
very traditionalist type, the old style bourgeois, to the working class people,
that are impressed by the radical promises the extreme right makes in terms of
lower taxes, jobs for the citizens, tariffs at the borders, and so on,
including the hate posture against international trade and supranational
institutions.
They
have an agenda that is far from being coherent. But they do not care about
consistency and logical sets of proposals. They care about being as populist as
they can.
It
is not a protest posture, contrary to what many say. It is a deliberate
assemblage of impossibilities to attract as many voters as they can. And if
they can add to that a smart leader, a sweet talker, and tough discourse, they
increase their chances of being supported.
That’s
what we have seen today in some EU countries.
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