Timothy Less disputes<\/a> this. Populist parties \u2013 \u201cFrance\u2019s National Front, the Alternative for Germany, the Danish People\u2019s Party, Poland\u2019s Law and Justice, Hungary\u2019s Fidesz and the Austrian Freedom Party\u201d \u2013 usually cut across existing left-right divides.<\/p>\nHe concedes that \u201cthey articulate the concerns of social conservatives, as UKIP does,\u201d but observes that \u201cin matters of economics, their agenda has far more to do with Jeremy Corbyn than Nigel Farage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFar Right\u201d is wholly inaccurate: \u201cNotwithstanding the fact that their party programmes have almost nothing in common with the nihilist visions of Hitler or Mussolini, they invariably sit to the left of a genuinely Far Right party, such as Bulgaria\u2019s Ataka or the People\u2019s Party-Our Slovakia.\u201d<\/p>\n
While \u201cunsavoury people associate themselves with these parties as they do with all parties,\u201d in fact \u201cthe \u2018racist\u2019 label is one applied by a nervous establishment to discredit parties which are willing to challenge the orthodoxies of Liberalism \u2013 the modern equivalent of shouting \u2018heretic\u2019. More accurately, their politics cut across the traditional left-right divide. It is not conservatism, let alone fascism, but post-Liberalism \u2013 and many ordinary voters like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Post-liberal movements in Europe are often denounced as \u201cfascist,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d or \u201cfar-right.\u201d Timothy Less disputes this. Populist parties \u2013 \u201cFrance\u2019s National Front, the Alternative for Germany, the Danish People\u2019s Party, Poland\u2019s Law and Justice, Hungary\u2019s Fidesz and the Austrian Freedom Party\u201d \u2013 usually cut across existing left-right divides. He concedes that \u201cthey articulate the concerns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-liberalism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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