“Why are the voters of every large wealthy country going insane in precisely the same way” is the defining question of our time. Some of it is internet brain poisoning. Some of it is diversity backlash. Some of it is being mad things are more expensive than they were in 2019.
I live in Texas, but am visiting Canada. As far as I can tell, things are more expensive for me back home. Hands down.
probably because they’re all realizing they don’t have their fair share of the wealth
they didn’t have a fair share in 1980, or 1950, either, and we didn’t see this!
You think the people are turning towards the AfD not because they think vile things about people who don’t look like them but because it’s actually class consciousness?
Trump and Farage and LePen aren’t offering a fairer distribution of wealth though. They’re offering demonization of poor immigrants and if anything an even more oligarchic economy.
They can sell deportation as redistribution
Also the take doesn’t explain why large sections of the bourgeois are moving towards the far right