In With Fascism, Out With Democracy?
There is something deeply uncomfortable about watching the politics of the Global North right now. Not because every country is suddenly fascist, and not because every conservative politician is secretly building a dictatorship in their basement, but because some of the ideas that were once considered politically dangerous are becoming increasingly normal. Borders are becoming political battlegrounds. Immigrants are becoming convenient explanations for economic frustration. Nationalism is being repackaged as common sense. Strongman politics is being sold as efficiency. And democracy, which we spent decades being told was the highest political ideal, is increasingly being treated like something that can be bent when it becomes inconvenient. America has been the most obvious example, but it is becoming harder to look at this as an American problem. Germany has just given us another uncomfortable reminder. In the September 2026 state election in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternat...
