Even far-right French politicians don’t want to be associated with the explicit Nazi behavior that members of the Trump administration have been exhibiting:
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/steve-bannon-cpac-nazi-salute-french-leader
Edit to add: Bannon’s salute even made Nick Fuentes uncomfortable. I didn’t think it was even possible for antisemitic behavior to bother that guy.
There are still people in Europe who lived through the war; it wasn’t “over there”, it was in their towns and homes. Their countries were occupied by nazis, and they lived with it every day, and many did not survive. Try a nazi salute in Holland, and see how far that gets you.
Not concerning at all./s
Good luck, Mr. Milei.
All in all this is line with what the polls said, but there are still some open questions. We’ll see how messy things will get.
Interesting! It reminds me of the Kurds in Rojava.
Zdf projecting that the AFD will get over 20% of the vote. Over one in five Germans falling for that nonsense. Looks like we’ll have to wait and see what the outcome is.
Yeah, for sure. This gives me some hope. It also reminds me of how the lunch sit-ins happened in 1960 as part of the civil rights movement. It started in one small SC town and spread across the state in a matter of days and weeks. And it got large chains like Woolworths to end their segregationist policies in southern stores.
There is certainly a strong, reactionary, nationalist streak in Serbian politics (indicated by the fact that the nationalist party is in power), but even back during the wars, there is a streak of resistance to that, too. What eventually stopped the invasion by the rump Yugoslav army into Kosovo was the sustained protests against Milosevic after the air raids started. The air raids were key, but less so than the protests against Milosevic.
I’m hearing that they got about 19%
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The far-right AfD has risen by more than 10% since the last federal election in 2021, while the far-left Die Linke or The Left party has also made significant gains.
In 2021, The Left managed to enter the Bundestag despite winning only 4.9% of the second votes. The party secured three direct mandates and thus benefited from the basic mandate clause, which bypassed the 5% threshold.
As a result, it received 39 seats in proportion to its second vote share and was able to remain in parliament with full faction status.
“Far”-left…
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