Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, weird reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
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monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffittA classic in the field - Cas was (unfortunately!) very prescient in in seeing where things stood and where things were heading even 15 years ago. I return to this article at least annually and am struck by how right it was (and is)
15 years ago, I argued that that the populist radical right was a "pathological normalcy" (radicalization of the mainstream), rather than a "normal pathology" (unrelated to the mainstream). Today, in some areas/positions (but not all ❗❗), the far right is the "normalcy" (i.e. mainstream).
The populist radical Right: A pathological normalcy
According to the conventional view, the far-Right in Europe is antithetical to the values of liberal democracy. New research showing that far-Right ideology is a radicalization of mainstream values ha...
