This subject has been touched upon in many threads. The trump one, the Orban one, the Brexit one, and others, but i think it really needs its own thread.
Obviously there are a number of extremist right wing leaders across Europe - in Hungary, Poland, Austria, Italy for a start. Plus increasingly powerful parties in other countries - Germany, France, the UK (UKIP may be on the wane, but a lot of the rhetoric and racism is in the right wing of the Tory party). This shift to the extreme is supported by Putin, and Trump, and Netanyahu (despite the contradictions in the fact that may of these movements are anti-semitic)
There is the usual hope that the contradictions of trying to form a trans national movement of nationalists is massively problematic. While Netanyahu might see common ground with anti semites, this is largely because these groups feel anti-Muslim racism is a richer furrow to plough, and Bibi is very much on board with that. But Erdogan would be a natural ally of these people politically, but obviously cannot become one because they all hate Turks and Muslims. Yesterday (as reported on the Trump thread) Poland's ruling PiS party said that they had been contacted by Steve Bannon about uniting these groups across the continent, but rejected him (a) because they don't regard themselves as anti EU, but more likely because (b) they are naturally opposed to Russia/Putin, and many of these groups are aligned with Putin.
Couple of other articles on Bannon and his attempts: Bannon gets mixed reception from fascists, some of whom think he just wants to give jobs to his mates like Farage (pleasingly even fascists seem to hate Farage) https://www.politico.eu/article/stev...alvini-le-pen/
Boris Johnson is working with Bannon https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...n-steve-bannon
Obviously there are a number of extremist right wing leaders across Europe - in Hungary, Poland, Austria, Italy for a start. Plus increasingly powerful parties in other countries - Germany, France, the UK (UKIP may be on the wane, but a lot of the rhetoric and racism is in the right wing of the Tory party). This shift to the extreme is supported by Putin, and Trump, and Netanyahu (despite the contradictions in the fact that may of these movements are anti-semitic)
There is the usual hope that the contradictions of trying to form a trans national movement of nationalists is massively problematic. While Netanyahu might see common ground with anti semites, this is largely because these groups feel anti-Muslim racism is a richer furrow to plough, and Bibi is very much on board with that. But Erdogan would be a natural ally of these people politically, but obviously cannot become one because they all hate Turks and Muslims. Yesterday (as reported on the Trump thread) Poland's ruling PiS party said that they had been contacted by Steve Bannon about uniting these groups across the continent, but rejected him (a) because they don't regard themselves as anti EU, but more likely because (b) they are naturally opposed to Russia/Putin, and many of these groups are aligned with Putin.
Couple of other articles on Bannon and his attempts: Bannon gets mixed reception from fascists, some of whom think he just wants to give jobs to his mates like Farage (pleasingly even fascists seem to hate Farage) https://www.politico.eu/article/stev...alvini-le-pen/
Boris Johnson is working with Bannon https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...n-steve-bannon
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