Italy has already elected a far right government that endorses fascist rallies
AfD is making record gains in Germany
National Rally are poised to win elections in France
Germany and Italy… looks like the gang is making a comeback 😬
I know Portugal had their election back in March and also elected a right wing party, but not nearly as far-right as other European countries.
As ABBA once said “the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.”
but not nearly as far-right as other European countries.
They are fascist in every sense of the word. The only difference, is that these far-right cucks are anti-Russian and pro-EU.
I stand incredibly corrected! I guess I was too focused on CHEGA as the farthest right that I didn’t realize this winning party was still pretty bad. I don’t see much coverage of the winners on the news I get over here so I honestly didn’t think they were as bad as other far-right parties making waves across Europe.
Portugal does look like its still going through an election phase or something because I’m seeing different parties doing public speeches (a poppy party and the PCP), I have no idea what they say and what’s going on but it seems important.
Poppy Party is LIVRE, they’re leftist from what I’ve seen (and not half bad) but meh. PCP has fallen, barely got any votes 💀
Here in Italy, unlike in Germany, criminals from the regime were never prosecuted nor underwent trial and condemnation (unlike, say, Nuremberg trials). Because this would have made left parties stronger and, in the 50s this means the Communist party, which the Americans didn’t want at all. Here is the result, well done allies! History repeats itself so that people can learn unlearned lessons better, like not passing an exam.
I’m gonna calm you down a little here and say that at least in Germany we are still firmly in the grip of neoliberal centrists. The AfD may have made gains (especially in the east) but the biggest winners were still the CDU/CSU. The same goes for the wider European picture. Ursula von der Lügen’s coalition of center-right parties is still by far the biggest player in the EU parliament. Nothing that much will change, the liberals will still have a firm grip on the reins of power, and they will continue, as they have already been doing, to capitulate on more and more non economic, non foreign policy points (i.e. those which do not harm the bottom line of capital and do not threaten the Euro-Atlanticist project in Europe) to placate the right. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chôse.
That is an interesting coincidence, because from 1933–1974 Portugal was a parafascist régime: people have claimed that the head of state was no fan of Adolf Schicklgruber, and the régime did indeed arrest some fascists for basically being too radical, yet it also offered the arrestees jobs, and it was one of the Third Reich’s biggest traders. That a ‘moderate’ right‐wing party would take power in Portugal once again is odd, yet fitting.
Portugal’s dictatorship was incredibly weird with regard to its relationship with other fascists at the time. The Carnation Revolution was almost a turning point but that got hijacked real quick, plus it’s legacy has been whitewashed (at least from what I could gather on the news coverage of the April 25th celebrations).
Portugal really lives up to “saudade.”
