{"id":11594,"date":"2023-09-01T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11594"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:03:09","slug":"springtime-for-europes-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11594","title":{"rendered":"Springtime for Europe\u2019s fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Over the past year, support for the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has nearly doubled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to more than 20 percent<\/a>&nbsp;in POLITICO\u2019s Poll of Polls, a record.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party is now in second place, just five percentage points behind the center-right Christian Democrats. Over the summer, the AfD has also succeeded in widening its lead over the Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of AfD\u2019s recent popularity can be attributed to persistent infighting and disarray in Scholz\u2019s coalition with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats. Alliance members have been at odds (and at times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/robert-habeck-germany-ruling-parties-clash-over-delay-of-contentious-heating-law-budget-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at one another\u2019s throats<\/a>) over everything from climate policy to child welfare subsidies since they took office in late 2021. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, the primary driver of the AfD\u2019s success is the same issue that has defined far-right parties across Europe for a generation: migration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-fascism-populism-europe-bjorn-hocke-immigration-elections-eu\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-fascism-populism-europe-bjorn-hocke-immigration-elections-eu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Over the past year, support for the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has nearly doubled to more than 20 percent in POLITICO\u2019s Poll of Polls, a record.<br \/>\nThe party is now in second place, just five percentage points behind the center-right Christian Democrats. Over the summer, the AfD has also succeeded in widening its lead over the Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Much of AfD\u2019s recent popularity can be attributed to persistent infighting and disarray in Scholz\u2019s coalition with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats. Alliance members have been at odds (and at times at one another\u2019s throats) over everything from climate policy to child welfare subsidies since they took office in late 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>That said, the primary driver of the AfD\u2019s success is the same issue that has defined far-right parties across Europe for a generation: migration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[728,1650],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-europe","tag-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}