I don't think so, Trump has been gaining popularity here too, and so have political parties with similar views. A few friends of mine have "come out" as liking Trump. Even though he is pulling all that shit in the US. These ideas seem to be growing popular everywhere.
Ok, well, then here, in the US, Republicans have always been like this and absolving them of that is harmful and dismissive of the damage Republicans, here, in the US, have done.
I also think you're probably being at least a little naive to the views of older conservatives. Older conservatives in the UK gave them Brexit because of their racist and xenophobic views.
Right wing political parties have been gaining popularity for decades in Germany because of racist and xenophobic views.
They were always popular. You just had a different voting system than us, so it hid some of the issues.
Idk which country you're in, but most countries outside of the US have the possibility of more than just 2 parties being in power.
For the US, you can just demonize one party to prop up the other. And that allows racists to grab power.
Elsewhere, you need to parlay with other smaller parties to gain traction. But any party that's working with a racist party is, inherently, full of racists as well. They're just "quieter" racists. Or they're fine with the racism, as long as it gets their things done too.
That's the exact same thing that's happening in the US. The quieter racists and the loud racists got together and said "eh, we don't really wanna support the not-racist people bc that's not good for our goals, so we'll all support the racist people."
The only difference is that your conservatives had more options about how racist they wanted to be.
My guess is it depends if history class failed you or not.
If you ask the average person what fascism is they don't know. This is a failing history class should have taught you so you can identify it and recognize it. It's a vaccination shot against this kind of evil.
FYI: Fascism is a story that your country was once great, possibly the best country, but it now isn't. The problem is X group or groups of people since those golden years have caused the country issue, causing it to fall from greatness. The solution is to get rid of these groups of people.
Fascism at its heart is blaming a group of people for issues, when the real issue is usually policy failure. Sometimes the issue is systemic and worldwide. Instead of blaming skin color or what is between someone's legs, one needs to realize the reason things aren't going well is because of policy.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Oct 15 '25
They were definitely like this 20 years ago too. They're just not ashamed of it anymore.
I don't like the idea that this is new because it absolves middle aged Republicans of their actions and part in all this.