Right-wing Populism On Rise
Yuba Nath Lamsal In the book ‘The Strange Death of Europe’, Douglas Murray writes “Europe is committing suicide.” By this he means the civilization as Europe is being understood worldwide is eroding. The liberal values with which Europe is best known are under assault. Rightist populism is making greater inroad in global politics. In other words fascism is slowly but steadily making a comeback in a new avatar either in the form of right-wing populism or left-wing extremism. Europe seems to be returning to pre-World War II conservative era. Europe is just a symptom but the trend is global. Factors contributing to the rightist populism are multiple. Immigration, inflation, rising cost of life, unemployment and economic downturn are said to be the key culprits creating fear in the mind of Europeans —the fear to lose their identity owing to mass inflow of immigrants to Europe from Asia and Africa. This gave rise to public disenchantment while right-wing parties and politicians have add