It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.

In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.

Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.

It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    No I don’t. And sure, I’ve seen more hate speech from right wingers, but I don’t think this comment chain originated with someone saying “left and right wingers emit comparable amounts of hate speech against minorities”.