Right-wingers are turning pro, and the pros are turning right.
We have long been reporting here on TGP about the surge in popular support for right-wing, populist, and nationalist groups of politicians who are basically anti-liberal and anti-globalist.
You know who we are talking about: the ones getting smeared daily in the MSM as ‘far-right’.
Even if the Brussels establishment has managed to avoid some of the defeats, there is no denying that the right-wing parties and movements are gaining ever more popularity and are also becoming increasingly professionally led.
A long article on Politico about the right-wing victory prospects in Western Europe shows exactly what’s beneath the name-calling and attempts at ridicule: fear.
Politico reported:
“From London to Berlin, they are cutting back on wine-soaked lunches, dressing like camera-ready mainstream politicians, and keeping their distance from the Kremlin, since being Vladimir Putin’s friend just isn’t fashionable these days. They’re getting clever about political tactics, too. Across Europe, the far right is turning pro.”
Riding the anti-migration wave, rightwing parties are now ahead in polls in Germany, France and the UK.
“They achieved a big breakthrough moment in the European Parliament this month, when the most powerful official in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, won a vote on cutting climate rules with help from some far-right lawmakers.”
Firewall no more?
The article calls Nigel Farage ‘the U.K.’s pro-Brexit rabble-rouser,’ leveraging his Donald J. Trump’s MAGA movement liaisons.
Farage vowed to ‘professionalize the party’s operation’ to ‘put it on a path to government’.
In France, they have the ‘stratégie de la cravate’ — the tie strategy, tells Politico.
“Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of the National Rally, is perhaps the slickest of all the far-right leaders in European frontline politics these days. With his trim physique, neat hair and sharp suits, he’s become a template for others.”
“After coming second with a record 21 percent of the vote in February’s election, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is now nudging ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc in the polls. In some parts of the former Communist east Germany, the AfD enjoys 40 percent support.”
AfD leader Alice Weidel is ‘trying to distance her party from its perceived proximity to the Kremlin’ – that’s a secondary smear by the MSM: ‘far-right, and Putin stooges too!’.
But besides the popularity of rightwing politicians, the issue, as the article rightfully detects, is that the rightwing ideas are becoming prevalent, too.
“It’s not just that the far right is turning professional — professional centrist politicians are embracing far-right policy ideas, too.”
Migration has become the major preoccupation of ‘centrist conservatives’ across Europe, like the UK’s Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
“Far-right priorities have found their way into mainstream debates on climate rules and especially the future of the combustion engine car.”
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