Posted on 09/24/2019 10:13:00 PM PDT by libh8er
The US and India are two of the most populous and powerful democracies in the world. And they are both represented by far-right leaders.
Even by the standards of the Trump era, the “Howdy Modi!” meeting in Houston, Texas, this Sunday was weird. The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, had invited Donald Trump to be his guest at a massive rally in the American heartland. And, unsurprisingly, giving his submissive behavior towards authoritarian leaders, the president had accepted, happily playing second fiddle to a foreign leader on US soil.
But beyond these remarkable details, the meeting was in many ways symptomatic of what I have called the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics in my new book, The Far Right Today. The fourth wave is characterized by extreme heterogeneity as well as mainstreaming and normalization, all of which were on display in Houston this weekend.
For decades the far-right operated at the margins of democratic politics, barely making it into national parliaments. And when they did, they were shunned by the other parties. Even when they increased their electoral successes in the last two decades of the 20th century, few were able to break into power. And this Sunday, two far-right leaders met in Houston, representing two of the most populous and powerful democracies in the world. They are the new mainstream!
The mainstreaming of Trump is now well-known, but no one personifies the mainstreaming and normalization of the far-right better than Modi, darling of the international business community, who sells India abroad as a modern, rising economic power, while implementing a radical Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) at home. On his travels all around the world, he is rarely confronted with protesters and few journalists will describe him as far right.
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The Manchester Guardian is to the left of Trotsky.
Representing your own citizens is now far right?
Trump did not play second fiddle. Such a load of cr**.
Sure is.
“And, unsurprisingly, giving his submissive behavior towards authoritarian leaders, the president had accepted, “
What a load of crap
Well, yeah if you're a hack at the guardian. They probably sit around in their che t-shirts singing the "Internationale".
Far Right= non-leftists.
What you Commies at the Manchester Guardian call “far Right” is actually just “Right”. The problem is that you yourselves are so far Left anybody to the right of the mushy party Establishment of the Republicans or the Tories appears “far Right” to you. In reality, leaders like Trump, Modi, Bolsonaro, Orban, Morrison, are mainstream and pretty traditional in their countries.
Pssst, Guardian....the US is not a Democracy and neither Modi not Trump are “far right”.
Now let us get back to selling CNG to India.
Sorry....LNG.
My handy-dandy Newspeak media translation guide for political ideology labels:
Media labels vs. Reality:
Blue = Red
Socialist/Left-wing = Stalinist
Liberal = Marxist
Moderate/(Centrist) = Socialist
Conservative = Liberal
Far-Right = Moderate
Ultraright/Racist/Bigot = Conservative Mainstream
So, President Trump & PM Minister Modi are moderates.
Heh. Sounds accurate. Like how the media claims Joe Biden is the "moderate" candidate in the RAT presidential primary, when in reality creepy Uncle Joe loyally supports 99.9% of leftist dogma and is to the left of his pal Obama on social issues like homo marriage.
And the media portrays Netanyahu as some as militant right-wing hardliner when in reality he's just slightly right-of-center and has been moving increasingly to the left over the years.
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