excessive emphasis on “traditional values” in their campaigns
It was also “if not us then Communists”, “if not us then Nazis”, “anti-fascism in the world” and “counter-terrorism” in the past.
In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don’t know.
We-ell, there’s a certain appeal in impaling Turks for me, it makes the remaining ones friendlier.
They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.
As if they weren’t in France or in UK or in Italy.
My opinion is that we’re fucked from all sides, there’s no need to pretend it’s only a handful of countries.