Is the West Experiencing a Right-Wing Drift?

The bits of polling I've seen suggest Macron's party is done. That maybe Macron is trying to get them to run things for a while which could create a Liz Truss style moment.

Unfortunately Giorgia Meloni is another example of someone who has been sorta stable in Italian politics. As have the BJP in India, for a decade. If it goes that way then by '27 the far right would capture the presidency too.

I thought En Marche/Renaissance like barely existed as a party before the presidency and they then won seats off the back of his success. Politics have always been hollow af, being either racist enough to compete with the fascists or progressive enough to please leftists, it’s like the least surprising thing of all time.

Yes. Macron basically fucked over the center left PS by splitting off, the party is almost a formality, no reason for it to exist beyond the guy's ego.

Funny how its initials are the same as Macron’s 🙄

Dismayed to discover just now that centrism.biz, a satire that became more otm with every passing year, is defunct. Thankfully there is an archive of sorts here https://www.scottvrooman.org/centrism-dot-biz

xp the youth wing is called Les Jeunes avec Macron!

the bjp have at least just gone backwards in india and no longer have a majority on their own so they're now going to have to rely on their coalition partners to pass anything. this should heavily limit how evil they can be since most of their coalition partners are secular regional parties who don't support the hindutva part of the bjp's agenda.

Dismayed to discover just now that centrism.biz, a satire that became more otm with every passing year, is defunct. Thankfully there is an archive of sorts here https://www.scottvrooman.org/centrism-dot-biz

― Maggy Scraggle

read this as "centrism is defunct" which... "yes and", i guess i'd say. the _idea_ of compromise and negotiation is ok, it's current centrists' commitment to continuing to sit at the table with open fascists that's, idk, politically nihilist maybe?