A distância entre o centro e a extrema direita está a encurtar-se?

In Europe, the distance between the centre right and the far right is shrinking

For the first time, a German state premier has been elected with votes from the xenophobic AfD.

People demonstrate outside Thuringia’s state parliament building with a banner featuring far-right AfD party politician Bjoern Hoecke and reading “Never again”.

It is often claimed that populist nationalism is rising across the continent. The truth is more complicated.
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Spain’s centre-right Popular Party (PP) and Citizens (Cs) govern Andalusia under a pact with the hard-right Vox. The extreme Sweden Democrats (SD), once untouchable, now enjoy the cooperation of Sweden’s centre-right Moderates, whose leader Ulf Kristersson even met with the party’s boss in December for what he called a “constructive conversation” on “important issues for the country, where our parties have similar views”. In Britain’s general election last year, Boris Johnson was helped to his 80-seat majority by the Brexit Party’s decision to stand down its candidates in seats held by the Conservatives. Finland, Austria and Italy have all seen far-right parties wield power in recent years.

A common, bogus justification used by mainstream partners of such extremists is that the alternative is as bad or worse...