4 ms·
> Your far-right political movements A nit - it seems the US far-right is adopting tactics from European far-right history and not the other way around. Trump
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> Your far-right political movements
A nit - it seems the US far-right is adopting tactics from European far-right history and not the other way around. Trump literally used the words "blood and soil" at some point and Fox is mastering the art of propaganda.
- pyrale 4y agoIf the granularity of your analysis is the century, you may have a point. Otherwise, Europe has experienced a significant decrease of far-right activity and popularity between WW2 and the 2000's, approximately.
- RestlessMind 4y agoWhy constrain to a weird length of 75-80 years? Despots can and do learn from history which can easily span a few hundred years, if not more. Heck, you have videos of 1930s fascists' speeches on Youtube.
- pyrale 4y ago> Why constrain to a weird length of 75-80 years? Because I'm talking of a recent trend, and this timeframe offers a relevant context.
- RestlessMind 4y agoBut your original assertion is that American far-right movement is being exported to Europe. Now if you are going to stop precisely at the moment when European fascism (which has a big influence on American far right) died down, then obviously that's going to be tautological. So not sure that qualifies as American export to Europe.
- pyrale 4y agoYou're making big semantic leaps here.You seem to be wanting to deny the claim that "the US are the origin of far-right ideology and pushing it to Europe", but that's not the point I'm making. My point is that, in recent times, the cultural flow goes this way. It's also one item in a list of other domains where the flow also goes this way.