America - The Official Thread

[Biggles]

The world-wide trend is not good recently, but this sentiment strikes me as a little too America-centric. I think the US is quickly becoming a cautionary tale that others can learn from.

Really? That seems overly optimistic. There has been a rise in authoritarian leadership in Hungary, Turkey & India, of course Russia and China, and substantial gains made by the far-right in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic etc.

Sweden?

"Founded in 1986 by Gustaf Ekström, a Nazi and former SS soldier, Ekström merged the Progress Party with the far-right Keep Sweden Swedish group. As Sweden slowly realises its wrongdoings on immigration, more voters are shifting to the far-right, normalising extremist policies, undermining the status-quo of progressive liberal values, and turning the Scandinavian state towards right-wing populism that threatens the values of the Western world."

Swedish right-wing populism is here to stay | Clingendael spectator

This is one of the four winning student columns from the Clingendael Spectator student column competition for the summer of 2024, written by Peter Sznewajs.1

spectator.clingendael.org

The sentiment seems to be pretty widespread & the tale from the US might be not so much "cautionary" as paradigmatic.
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