They just lost ground in the Netherlands, losing about 1/3 of their voters from last time (down from 24% to 17%)

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I like your optimism, but this is likely an outlier. Any little mistake the sitting governments are making will push the far-right to new highs, and there is no reason to believe there won't be mistakes. There will be plenty. So, that's the fuel that keeps coming.

Now you need a lighter to set this all on fire, and we can see it grow in front of our eyes. The bigger the AI bubble grows, the more it will all come crashing down, and the next economic crisis will find all the EU countries (and not just those) ready for a far-right takeover. It's just a matter of time.

	▲	hdgvhicv a day ago \| parent [-]
		In the U.K. the far right are polling 30%. In a sane election system this wouldn’t deliver a landslide In PR countries the populist right tends to be about 30% - France, Italy, or lower (29% Sweden, 15% Poland) I don’t think it’s inevitable, but something has to change. Europe can’t take a billion extra immigrants from climate migration, even if they integrated. Wealth disparity is ballooning, with fewer people owning more and more, and that’s likely to snowball in the next 20 years as the wealthiest keep accumulating and power shifts more to weary and away from work.