The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

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Something is happening among America’s allies, and it’s a tremendous relief. For some years now, we’ve seen the MAGA-infused global right gaining a foothold amongst western democracies, largely driven by the same demagogic, nationalist, pseudo-populism that has fueled Donald Trump’s dominance on the American right.

Some countries like Hungary have served as a sort of experiment for the kind of post-democratic autocracies dreamt of by the modern right wing in which government co-opts, intimidates and de-legitimizes the political opposition to create an authoritarianism that dominates the culture and the politics without a lot of overt violence.

But the rise of the far right among the Western allies seems to be stalling out.

  • aramova@infosec.pub
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    6 days ago

    As long as you voted against him, yes.

    If someone said “oh they’re both the same” or “Kamala didn’t make her position clear enough on ______” or any of the other excuses, they need to bear the full brunt of their (in)decision.

    I’ve zero sympathy for those fools.

    • ant1guns444@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      As an European I have zero empathy for genocide voters. If things go south we’ll have to give asylum those those who have a clear track record of not being complicit with the Gaza massacre

      I guess kamala voters are out lmao

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Very right wing of you to have no sympathy for people born less intelligent than you. Fools should not be blamed. A system that allows fools to be swayed and to be the deciding factor is where the blame should go.

      • AlexLost@lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        Blaming the system is a cop out. It didn’t happen before, because the electorate held their representatives to some kind of standard. Now, your representatives tell you what to think and y’all just nod your heads like lambs to the slaughter

      • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        The incels had a choice to listen to reason. They went out of their way to bully. Many ppl vulnerable got affected by this unfairly.

        That’s not a stupidity that needs an advocate.

      • Kage520@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        I don’t know. Unintelligent or even uneducated is easy to label the Maga crowd, and certainly many of them deserve that. But not all of them. I know a few who are well educated but just seem racist or 'i got mine" types.

        • korazail@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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          6 days ago

          That’s really the crux. There are two trump voters: There are 1) the easily swayed, misled, gullible, uninformed, and other adjectives that imply they are just not fully aware of what is going on; and then 2) the evil assholes who know fully that they are breaking things because they stand to profit from the breakage.

          Class 1 deserves our compassion, and should be helped to understand why their choices hurt themselves and society.

          Class 2 needs to be evicted from this reality.

      • aramova@infosec.pub
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        6 days ago

        Fools should not be blamed. A system that allows fools to be swayed […bad grammar…] is where the blame should go.

        While the system bears its share of blame, it is the unquestioning enablers, those who readily consume its dictates, who breathe life into its flaws. Just as tolerance cannot survive by tolerating intolerance, wisdom cannot flourish when we indulge foolishness. To dismantle a flawed system, we must first challenge those who sustain it.