Far-good movements beget been successful globally by politicising hostility to immigrants and cultivating a resurgent ethnonationalism. The left can – and should – fight backWhen Donald Trump won the US presidential election,it was as if a great gear whirred and clanked into place, and the whole global machine was suddenly moving at a different velocity. It was just the latest victory for rightwing nationalist populism in a liberal democracy. In places from Poland to India such actors are in government. In Sweden and Germany, or they are on the march,and they drove the Brexit vote in the UK. In France, Marine Le Pen just might be elected president next year. Related: Hitler salutes and white supremacism: a weekend with the 'alt-good' pic.twitter.com/qXbDd7zUcF Related: White fragility, or white alarm: the crisis of racial identity in Australia,and beyond | Marcus Woolombi Waters Continue reading...
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