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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
Is it just me or is Europe in general moving to the right. Any reason for that?
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Crisis (well, the plural of it), easy solutions and strong men (or, in this case, women) being en vogue, age pyramids benefitting parties promising to preserve the status quo or restore that of the past, 'conservatives' moving so far to the right in attempts to retain voters that they become indistinguishable from the hard right (and thus shifting the discourse), a media landscape refusing to learn from what has happened in the US. Also a sort of similar effect that iirc is a "thing" in the US re: midterms 'correction', only that it's subsequent main elections. Meaning in a lot of countries more progressive a left(ish) parties making inroads and now, especially due to the Pandemic and the Ukraine war/energy crisis, resulting in a big backlash as things aren't going exactly smoothly. Makes the stupidest done and dusted ideas and policies make a comeback which then benefits those that held those positions all along. (Be it in terms of energy policy, societal issues or just stupid manifactured culture war shit suddenly making headlines).
In general the developments mirror the one in the US and the talking points and issues, real or imagined/manifactured, are often the same, only coming a bit later later.
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