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Matthew Yglesias
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A related point: I deeply sympathize with the impulse to use cordon sanitaire tactics to lock European far-right parties out of power, but I think the relentlessness of their rise has to be attributed in part to the fact that you never get thermostatic backlash that way.
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Matthew Yglesias
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The thermostat is your friend. cnn.com/2025/03/02/pol
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@DV1776
That’s how I feel, but instead, every party to the left of Hillary Clinton should be banned. Anti-private property Marxists are a far greater threat to the western way.
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Stan Veuger
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Ironically the cordon sanitaire has worked extremely well, even in electoral terms, in its modern birthplace (Antwerp)
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Eloy Vera Beltrán 🦔🇦🇷
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The thing is that, in multi-party systems, no party is willing to go into coalition with the extreme just to tank along them and habe that stain on their record, possibly to be replaced by a slightly more moderate alternative.
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Veer Option
@LibBlocker4000
The simplest solution would be for the left wing parties to move away from Koch Brothers immigration policies. Yet that option doesn’t seem to be on the table. I don’t get it just like I didn’t get it when US dems did the same thing and let it cost them an election.
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Ant Kibbutz
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If they keep escalating the war with Russia, working class Europeans won't be able to afford to turn their actual thermostats above 60.
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Rose Tinted
@TheRoseTinted
The thing is, far-right rulers tend to stick around. (And Trump is actually an example of that!) They don't just get thermostat-ed away the way the other ones do. That's precisely why they must be kept out - don't want to gamble on Orbanization
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