Happening in Germany right now, we are at step 2

Hello from Germany. We just passed step 3.

Sweden currently has a right-wing government supported by the Nazis (the SD party, who have roots in Sweden’s WW2-era NSDAP affiliates, though vigorously deny being Nazis), who are still considered too much of a hot potato to let into the government proper, so they have to have their offices outside the government building of the parliament and launder their policy ideas through the mainstream right-wing parties. Most of the policies thus laundered can be summed up as “make Greta Thunberg cry”: cutting diesel taxes, scrapping high-speed rail plans, and just now scrapping the plastic-bag surcharge, a move that has no purpose other than to be culture-war red meat. (Make Greta Cry are the only culture-war issues they can agree on; beyond that, they’re coming to blows on things like Pride flags/LGBT rights and such.) Other than that, they’ve bringing in tougher requirements for Swedish citizenship, but not much more than that.

Theoretically, if the right gets re-elected in 2026, it’s possible that the Nazis (the largest party among them) will be in government proper, or even that their Reichsführer Jimmie Åkesson (a mediagenic stuffed shirt good at making a motley crew of thugs and bigots look like “citizens with legitimate concerns”) would be prime minister. In practice, the right are tanking in polling, and it’s not getting any better for them, and a Socialdemokraterna-led centre-left coalition is likely to be the next government. Of course, a lot can happen between now and then, but short of a Riksdag fire or 9/11-style spectacle, I can’t see them turning this around easily, as it has become painfully apparent that a significant proportion of the coalition are cretins.

Finland at the final step. One of current ruling parties is a populist conservative one with openly racist views. And our right wing parties are sucking their dicks cause together they can bash some unions. A fucking disgrace.

French here, we are currently oscillating between steps 3, 4 and 5 and we get closer to 6 each year :/

That strategy worked out great for Germany in the early 20th century. What could go wrong?!

Sweden? Somebody's confusing countries. That's exactly what's happening in Germany now.

We're already at step 5 in the Netherlands unfortunately..

I went to Europe after Trump was elected and everyone was oozing smug.

I'd like to add that both sides of the political spectrum caused their extreme growth. There was a huge storm of dissatisfaction regarding the immigration politics and at one point I recall our government sponsored news channel showing statistics of about 70% of Swedens citizens were asking for reducing it as it was unsustainable. During this time the centrist right leader held a speech about how "this current situation will cost us a LOT of money, but we need to open our hearts" while the left flat out ignored the problems and said we were a "Humanitarian great power" and stated we were getting highly educated doctors and professors.

The only party that spoke against it was the extreme right, and any mention of anti-immgration caused a massive shitstorm by any other political party that refused to touch the subject. Quite obviously when you polarize the country and refuse to listen to your voters, they'll go to the party that DO.

I'm not defending or showing support for them, I'm just explaining how they're this big because of the arrogance and ignorance of the other parties. THEY made them big and now they have to work with them.

Hapenned in Brazil, but now center-right is bleeding votes to the right wing.

I know little of Swedish politics. What defines someone has far right in Sweden?

Germany is on #2, going strong to #3 atm

See also Overton Window

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