There is a story about Europe that says we are living in a rerun of the 1930s. According to this narrative, the populist right is rising again as crisis-hit Europeans look for scapegoats. Indeed, rightwing populist parties have polled more than or near one-fifth of the vote during the crisis in countries as tranquil as Finland and Switzerland. Already the populists are poisoning political debate, by pushing mainstream parties to take far-right paranoid, xenophobic views seriously. Now they aim to graduate to government.
有一種關於歐洲的說法稱,我們正面臨20世紀30年代的重演。按照這種敘述,在受到危機打擊的歐洲人尋找替罪羊之際,民粹主義的右翼正在重新抬頭。的確,在危機期間,右翼民粹主義政黨能在芬蘭和瑞士這樣的平靜國家拿到超過或將近五分之一的選票。民粹主義者已經毒化了政治辯論,推動主流政黨認真對待極右的偏激、排外立場,現在,他們的目標是進入政府。