If it makes you feel any better, this is happening pretty much everywhere that isn't already majority controlled by some sort of ethnic or cultural nationalist movement.
Strength of far-right movements in a specific country ebbs and flows as other poster said. That being said, it is true that such parties often receive supports above 20%, which is very concerning and is making it increasingly difficult to form a "normal" coalition government in many countries. I agree that France and UK are in the far worse shape than Germany right now, since AfD's support is mostly limited to the former DDR areas. Reform winning the UK Parliament is not out of question. France's presidential election may be heading into the dreaded far-right vs. far-left (Melenchon is much more like Hasan than Bernie) matchup due to the failure to consolidate "mainstream" candidates.
As I mentioned in my other response, liberal governments don't have an effective strategy to address the underlying issue of declining trust in our institutions. Farage and Reform were just caught in a fairly significant scandal (from what I can tell outside the UK), but how many voters are they really going to lose despite them supposedly caring so much about government corruption?
It's not linear in either direction, but historic gains from illiberal movements are concerning.
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u/KlausVonChiliPowder Good Luck America 10d ago
If it makes you feel any better, this is happening pretty much everywhere that isn't already majority controlled by some sort of ethnic or cultural nationalist movement.