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Election analysis reveals right-wing surge across Europe (www.politico.eu)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm not based in Europe, so I'm asking the dumb question here. After an example from the US, how and why? What can we do? 😞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Didn't need an election analysis, do you have eyes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are there right- and left-wings? Why not also up-wing and diagonal-wings?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Pre-revolutionary French politics. The conservative royalist faction sat on the right of the king and the liberal faction sat on the left. It’s pretty stupid that we still use this terminology, not least because it lumps together political factions that are quite distinct but whatever. Been meaning to read up on this so feel free to add more if you know more than my cursory understanding of this topic.