During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is partly responsible for their growing success.

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Political Research in September, argues that one common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires.

  • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Meanwhile the east-german CDU is once again debating cooperating with the extreme-right AfD because boycotting them has not been working - guess what, they have been copying the right talking points and speech.