(July 27, 2016 at 5:09 am)Mathilda Wrote: They need the right set of circumstances in order to find fertile ground, and more importantly an electorate who are new to the use of those techniques.
Most of all they need a frightened disenfranchised electorate desperately in hope for someone presenting the easy solutions for their predicament. They don't scratch the surface. Otherwise they would notice that the emperor is always naked. What all these movements have and had in common, and that may be the only thing, is the absence of real world plans. It's usually get rid of this or that ethnicity, people or group and all will be fine and dandy. That's true for any kind of populism, regardless if it's lleft or right.