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The populist right’s ‘worst enemy’: Itself
- Frank Furedi warns Europe’s populist right may fail to govern if it gains power, not about rising totalitarianism.
- He says there’s real demand for something different, describing the era as a collapse of the old order.
- Furedi notes the need for a professional cadre to sustain governance beyond mere elections.
- MCC Brussels, funded by Hungary’s private college, is framed as a testing ground for right-wing ideas.
- Furedi acknowledges MCC Brussels’ publications often echo the Hungarian government, while denying control from Budapest.
- Furedi links Europe’s right-wing surge to broader anti-elite sentiment and local clashes in towns like Faversham.
- He sees Meloni and Orbán as exceptions where the right has governed with some stability.
- The interview situates the right’s rise alongside Trump-era lessons and the U.S. MAGA experience.
- The piece notes Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen, and the Austrian and German populist currents as part of the trend.
- Furedi emphasizes freedom of speech should extend to even abhorrent ideas, including Holocaust denial.
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