Now is the time to move closer together. The historic success of the far right in Germany’s federal election is a threat not only for all disadvantaged groups in this country – it is a threat to democracy which concerns us all.
In this blog post for the Progressive Governance Digital Summit 2021, Cas Mudde proposes three strategies for fighting right-wing populism. On the one hand, it has been refreshing to have a year without a global obsession about “populism”. On the other hand, COVID-19 has demonstrated how vulnerable even the most advanced democracies and welfare states …