Which begs a question for a different thread, but what exactly is missing/awry in these people’s lives that they feel like this hard-right, reactionary ideology works for them?
And none of the usual glib, simple answers about how they’re hateful, racist, stupid, whatever. I have a feeling that those are symptoms or consequences, not the root causes of this movement. Like you say, it’s a global phenomenon, and it’s one that apparently rears up every so often (we last saw this in the 1920s and 1930s). The question is why, and what makes this sort of thinking so attractive to a certain demographic?
(the other thread in question: