• Saleh@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    It is always the same tactic:

    1. If in opposition be as loud and obnoxious as you can, have the less far right parties implement your policies as you rise in the polls.
    2. Rise even more in the polls as a result of your policies being implemented and the public discourse becoming more and more far right and get into a government coalition.
    3. Blow up the coalition and suffer a bit in the polls.
    4. Quickly recover in the years to come by repeating step one, just in a more right wing society
    5. Rinse and repeat until you get absolute power.

    Look at Austria, Poland, Hungary…

    Fascists profit both from being in opposition, thanks to their less far-right enablers and they profit from a dysfunctional government in the long run.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      It’s really interesting how this doesn’t work for the left precisely because left opposition doesn’t get its voice amplified or covered in media while facists do.