The Netherlands is well-educated and extremely secular, yet it has voted the extreme right PVV as largest party in its last elections, which is now the largest party in government. The extreme right is on the rise pretty much everywhere in the western world, and has been since at least two decades.
And the Conservatives losing in Canada can also be blaimed quite simply on a powerful foreign leader demanding its annexation. Otherwise, they’d likely have won anyway.
Both Canada and Australia resoundingly rejected Conservatism in federal elections in the last week.
The best defense is education and secularism.
The Netherlands is well-educated and extremely secular, yet it has voted the extreme right PVV as largest party in its last elections, which is now the largest party in government. The extreme right is on the rise pretty much everywhere in the western world, and has been since at least two decades.
And the Conservatives losing in Canada can also be blaimed quite simply on a powerful foreign leader demanding its annexation. Otherwise, they’d likely have won anyway.