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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde
The poison that's infected the mainstream of the body politic
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DUTCH academic Cas Mudde began researching the far right in the 1980s when, he notes, “neo-nazi groups could barely protest in the streets without being arrested and anti-immigration parties barely registered in the polls.”
But fast-forward to today and three of the world’s five most populous countries are run by a far-right leaders in India, Brazil and the US. Radical-right parties are part of coalition governments in four European countries — Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and Slovakia — and fully in control in Poland and Hungary, while two more are propped up by radical right parties in Denmark and Britain.
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