If the European pattern holds, this is good for the dissident right parties. Depressed turnout in other recent European elections seems to have been establishment voters who were disillusioned and discouraged from voting for their parties, but too stupid or lazy to switch their vote. Either way, it means the dissident right's voters are the most likely to vote.
That pattern didn't make enough of a difference in the French election, but it seems to have done in Sweden, and in the Dutch local elections.
I don't know the specifics of this 'election', but I do know that as a general rule, it's establishment bots who are more likely to vote.
The populists are generally the disaffected people who despair of any improvement, and who therefore do not vote unless activated.
This sometimes combines with the fact that some of the populists, like the ones in France, have a larger than average youth following. And young people also tend to vote less.
For the record: the parties labeled as 'far-right' in the Murican press are generally relatively left-wing on economic policies. They criticize the neoliberal governments both for allowing uncontrolled immigration and for cutting social services for ordinary people to pay for their beloved immigrants.
I don't know the specifics of this 'election', but I do know that as a general rule, it's establishment bots who are more likely to vote.
That doesn't seem to have been the case recently in Europe. In the recent Swedish election, turnout was down 5% and the right won. In the Dutch local elections in March, turnout was down roughly 4%, and there was a huge surge in support for localist and regional parties, as well as the FvD and the PVV. I understand that 2 data points don't make a pattern, but it seems like the same thing is happening in Italy.
This sometimes combines with the fact that some of the populists, like the ones in France, have a larger than average youth following. And young people also tend to vote less.
True.
For the record: the parties labeled as 'far-right' in the Murican press are generally relatively left-wing on economic policies. They criticize the neoliberal governments both for allowing uncontrolled immigration and for cutting social services for ordinary people to pay for their beloved immigrants.
Georgia Meloni actually referred to herself as the "right-wing Tony Blair" whatever that's supposed to mean, and she'll have to govern along with Salvini, who cucked for the vaccine passports, and with fucking Berlusconi. I'm really not all that optimistic.
If the European pattern holds, this is good for the dissident right parties. Depressed turnout in other recent European elections seems to have been establishment voters who were disillusioned and discouraged from voting for their parties, but too stupid or lazy to switch their vote. Either way, it means the dissident right's voters are the most likely to vote.
That pattern didn't make enough of a difference in the French election, but it seems to have done in Sweden, and in the Dutch local elections.
I don't know the specifics of this 'election', but I do know that as a general rule, it's establishment bots who are more likely to vote.
The populists are generally the disaffected people who despair of any improvement, and who therefore do not vote unless activated.
This sometimes combines with the fact that some of the populists, like the ones in France, have a larger than average youth following. And young people also tend to vote less.
For the record: the parties labeled as 'far-right' in the Murican press are generally relatively left-wing on economic policies. They criticize the neoliberal governments both for allowing uncontrolled immigration and for cutting social services for ordinary people to pay for their beloved immigrants.
That doesn't seem to have been the case recently in Europe. In the recent Swedish election, turnout was down 5% and the right won. In the Dutch local elections in March, turnout was down roughly 4%, and there was a huge surge in support for localist and regional parties, as well as the FvD and the PVV. I understand that 2 data points don't make a pattern, but it seems like the same thing is happening in Italy.
True.
Georgia Meloni actually referred to herself as the "right-wing Tony Blair" whatever that's supposed to mean, and she'll have to govern along with Salvini, who cucked for the vaccine passports, and with fucking Berlusconi. I'm really not all that optimistic.
SD won in Sweden because the left lost voteres to the new Islamist party Nyans