2) #Wilders has been referred to as the #DonaldTrump of the #Netherlands.

Although the PPV gained 20 seats for a total of 37, Wilders will not have a free hand in the lower house. He’ll need to form a coalition government totaling 76 seats. The big question is which parties will be willing to enter government with the PPV?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/far-rights-wilders-seeks-form-dutch-govt-after-shock-election-win-2023-11-23/

#FarRight #Politics

3) #Poland appears to have turned its back on #FarRight politics with last month’s election yielding a significant loss of seats by the #RightWing Law and Order party

It’s likely that the next government will be formed by #DonaldTusk and his Civic Platform party in association with other parties from Poland’s left

All will not be smooth sailing for Tusk as he will need to contend with President Andrzej Duda of Law Order who wields veto power

#Politics #EuroPolitics

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-president-andrzej-duda-not-abiding-incoming-pm-donald-tusk/

4) My #Dublin hometown is in the news due to rioting triggered by a knife attack on school children.

Little is known about about the motives or identity of the attacker at this point. It seems #FarRight types concluded the perpetrator is a #migrant

in response to this insane attack, #HardRight types fomented a riot, organized through #SocialMedia and messaging apps. Fortunately nobody appears to have died but the breakdown in civil order is sobering

#MastoDaoine

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/chaos-in-dublin-6231438-Nov2023/

5) This article was published 3 days prior to the #DublinRiots and gives a small sense of the odd alliance that is the #FarRight and how they use #SocialMedia to promulgate their dreck

What’s odd about the alliance? I find it head scratching that the associated ragey posts are directed at #Migrants, #ClimateChange, #ReproductiveRights, #Vaccines to name just 4 areas. All topics sure to drive wedges in #WesternDemocracy. The question is at the behest of who and why?

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/11/20/spread-of-false-information-on-social-media-soared-since-pandemic-study/

6) Interesting to see #ElonMusk taking an interest in #IrishPolitics. I’m sure his astute analysis will make him even more beloved in the West’s most liberal democracy

Of course #Musk’s inherent #racism and #homophobia couldn’t resist the opportunity to pick a fight.

If I was #Elon, I’d be treading very carefully, I’m guessing that some rapier Irish with wit is forthcoming for the chief Twit

#EuroPolitics #SocialMedia #HateSpeech #Mastodaoine

https://www.joe.ie/amp/news/elon-musk-varadkar-tweets-786596

7) Unsurprisingly another clown has joined the mix. #DonaldTrumpJr ‘s shallowness, ignorance, narcissism and self-regard is only outstripped by the sorry twisted personage that is his father

Jr is the poster child for the implementation of a #wealthTax and the end to inherited wealth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nj2xzrz83o.amp

#EuroPolitics #IrishPolitics #USPolitics #MastoDaoine

8) While attempts by #FarRight, anti-democratic types are beaten back in some jurisdictions, #oligarch loving politicos, succeed in other jurisdictions, such is the case of #RobertFico in #Slovakia, known for his embrace of #Putin’s Russia

Fico’s party won the most seats in the Sep 30 election and quickly signed a coalition agreement which included the National party which sits on the #HardRight spectrum

#EuroPolitics #Politics

https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-fico-government-election-populist-coalition-smer-05d3154c6db33b22b96ba059a3e9eb67

9) Last week was not a good one for democracy in #Argentina with the election of #JavierMilei, another #FarRight tin-pot

The new president is a poster boy for countries who cannot get their sh#t together. Since the end of the #DirtyWar, #LatinAmerica’s 2nd largest country has struggled with hyper inflation, a public finance crisis and an inability to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities available within it’s borders

There will be more lost years

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/19/1214092698/javier-milei-a-radical-libertarian-populist-elected-president-of-argentina

10) Interesting detailed analysis on the #Netherlands election from Paul Tullis in the #NYTimes. It seems there was a significant rural/urban divide in the vote with less densely populated regions supporting #GeertWilders’ Party for Freedom. The same left/right divide exists in America

While #Wilders’ and his PPV dramatically increased their number of seats from 17 => 37, the path to forming a coalition with a majority of 76 seats is questionable

#EuroPolitics

🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/opinion/geert-wilders-netherlands-right.html

11) Excellent piece from Fintan O’Toole on the #DublinRiots.

FOT rightly insists on complexity, reminds us #Irish of some other ugly #FarRight #DublinRiot history and does not mince words in calling those who stoked the violence what they truly are: #Fascist

#Fascists are “malignant narcissists” who will exploit any opportunity to further their cancerous goals. Marxists or migrants are simply grist for their mill, a quest for recognition and relevance

#Mastodaoine

🔑 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/11/28/irish-fascism-is-not-a-reaction-to-immigration-or-poverty-its-not-even-a-new-phenomenon/

12) There is no unitary explanation for last week’s #DublinRiots. Those who participated in violence had a reasons peculiar to their own experience. Much as we may wish for singular explanations, solutions to the street rage will likely be manifold, if there is enough courage to look at the event without bias and simplistic prejudice.

Let’s stipulate that the rioters did not participate motivated out of satisfaction with their current life situation.

#FarRight #MastoDaoine #Dublin #Ireland

@Becksy

I don’t think I impugned poor people anywhere in my comments, nor did I make reference to poverty. My point here is that the reasons behind individual acts of violence are likely manifold. “Thuggery” does not emanate from a vacuum, nor does the drive to “let of steam” come without precedence.

In no way do I think the acts of violence perpetrated should go without legal redress, however if we want to protect democracy and avoid a repetition, causation needs to be addressed

@Becksy

There is certainly #FarRight agitation at play with the #DublinRiots.

But would rioting have happened if the no way demagogues’ agitation gad been directed at rich tech companies based in #Dublin

Some are just driven by the opportunity for “agro”

#MastoDaoine

@ashtime @Becksy

Well I think most pols recognize there is a problem now. Plenty of talk about a step up in enforcement and updating the legal code. That seems appropriate to me. However is that not paired up with addressing the underlying inequality \ disillusionment \ non-participation \ educational deficit issues, then it will only be a matter of time before another explosion