Overseas Elections Have Repudiated Right-wing Extremism. We Must Be Next.
Four months.
That’s how long we have until the most critical election in modern American history, the outcome of which will determine whether we continue as an ever-evolving constitutionally limited democratic republic or descend into fascism.
The United States often regards itself as an outlier among other developed countries. But while we are “exceptional” in some ways, and other countries have different governmental structures and processes, we really aren’t all that different from other Western democracies in terms of what they want for their citizens. Our economic and military standing in the world as it is, being the world’s oldest constitutionally limited democratic republic puts us in the position of setting examples for other developed nations. Sometimes, though, our allies and those we may not be so allied with provide the examples for us.
What happened last week in Europe and Iran are a few of them.
In what was predicted to be a win for far-right fascist-leaning parties, France’s New Popular Front emerged from snap elections with 182 seats in the National Assembly. Now the largest bloc in the French parliament, it places incumbent President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition second and forces out the hard-right National Rally of…
