Over the past couple of decades, far-right parties and leaders have moved from the fringes to the forefront of global politics.
Figures like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni and Narendra Modi or parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD), once seen as outliers or shrugged off altogether, now command mass followings, win elections or come close to winning, and shape global political discourse in a big way. They are now concretely in the mainstream.
Their rhetoric may differ across borders, but many share common strategies: scapegoating marginalised groups, exploiting economic anxiety and leveraging democratic institutions to erode them from within. We see similar trends in Malaysia too.
The question is how did we get here?
BFM is joined by German political scientist Dr Frederik Holst for an in-depth conversation about global far right movements – the similarities and differences between the various far right movements and if fascism is the right word to categorise them.
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