A historically-high number of voters have chosen parties classified as authoritarian or populist, according to a new report analysing parliamentary election results for 260 parties in 31 countries since 1946, or since the year free elections were first held.
I mean, look at it this way: 2/3 of Europeans don’t support populists.
Furthermore, since most European countries do not have a two-party system, this means that European countries can govern with a 2/3 sane majority, and try to ignore the populists’ 1/3 in the Parliament.
Populism, being right wing & authoritarianism are not the same things. I’m of the opinion that sane populism on the left is what we need in Europe, but there are almost no examples. (kind of like what Bernie Sander’s populism is like)
Indeed.
Plenty of countries also don’t have a winner takes all. As a prevention against extremists.
Take Belgium for example. The populist party won the highest votes. But even the other right-wing parties didn’t want anything to do with them. So they made a coalition with the left to keep those fuckers out.
Since even the other right-wing parties knew how dumb, bad and ineffective those populists ideas were. Like who cares there are trans people running around. There are actual problems that need to be solved.