Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics

Hello, I'm Rayne, and I'm a lapsed Catholic. I fell away from the Church over a period of time, beginning roughly with the Reagan years and the uptick in Christian fundamentalism's influence on politics. It didn't happen all at once but I finally had enough when the Church became little more than a crypto-fascist mouthpiece for right-wing ideology, focusing almost exclusively on anti-abortion efforts instead of what I was taught were Christ's teachings.

This imbalance has led young men to coin the term 'hoeflation,' the grind of chasing women they might barely fancy, but will date just to escape loneliness.

When I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother

For nearly two decades, I have been collecting the physical evidence of America's soul. The documents, the letters, the artifacts that tell the true story of who we are, announced Beck in a video, boasting that his hoard of well over a million documents and items had become the third-largest private collection of founding documents in the world, surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the National Archives.

I do not like the guy at all. The first thing for me was he didn't release the Epstein files. They're even acting like they didn't exist. And, of course, they're sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did. Putting America last, and now he's blaming the beef farmers for the price of beef. Hey, I'm not biased, man. He talked a good game, he tricked me. I was fooled. I admit it.

One of the main takeaways from President Donald Trump's election victory last year was the inroads he made with Hispanics and African-Americans, two large minority demographics traditionally associated with the Democrats. But the increase in support for Trump among Muslim voters, though less decisive electorally, was arguably more dramatic and should prompt reflection on the changing character of American politics.

Allegations of espionage against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have been raised by the interior minister of the state of Thuringia. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Social Democrat (SPD) Georg Maier expressed concern that the AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about Germany's transport infrastructure, water supply, digital infrastructure and energy supply. "With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin," Maier told the newspaper this week.

Parents can feel a certain way, but we are making decisions that impact our kids. I'd argue that most who want to argue with me think that I want to take away something from one group or another. I think they also wouldn't want to exclude kids,

Language policing. Cancel culture. Victimhood contests and cultural grievances. Despite attacking the left for partaking in such practices, there's an emerging set of individuals on the right who have became exactly what they've criticized. Meet the woke right. Thank you, President Trump, for ending a scourge that's plagued our nation for far too long. We've gotten rid of the woke. Woke no longer. Just kidding. The truth is, wokeness is actually alive and well.

But in 2025, Walsh said, leftists not only want you to tolerate their positions or beliefs on topics like trans rights the next steps are affirmation, celebration, [and] participation. The podcaster said you can count him out on participating in anything Islam-related. You know what, I'm not even going to tolerate this. I am actively opposed to this. I think it's bad. I don't want it in my community, and I don't want it in my country, Walsh said.

As violence against Muslims becomes public spectacle, India's majoritarian politics has turned hate into entertainment and silence into complicity. Every morning in today's India begins with two parallel news cycles. One, broadcast on television screens, is carefully curated: Panel debates on Pakistan, Hindu pride, and endless theatre about a new India. The other, untelevised but deeply real, is the daily routine of Muslims being lynched, harassed, jailed, and demonised.

The debate kicked off following a Politico article titled, I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat. The article led to widespread condemnation of the kind of rhetoric gripping factions of the MAGA world, but was also roundly dismissed by many, like Vice President JD Vance, who urged their supporters to focus their ire on the left and support a call for having no enemies on the right.

Bad Bunny represents none of these values; his drag performances and style are the opposite of what families expect on football's biggest stage. Again, George Strait embodies unity, tradition, and the timeless American music that truly deserves the 2026 Super Bowl spotlight.

Today's extremist styles are more diverse and more subtle. Beyond T-shirts that advertise blatant racism, polo shirts with coded symbols create a shared in-group identity and signal support of violence to other believers. Tradwife-style prairie dresses and beauty regimens promote conservative visions of family. Clothing is a powerful tool to spread fascist ideas to promote authoritarianism and recruit new members to this cause.

On the last day of the trial, prosecutor Jo Morris said the counter-terrorism powers used by police to stop Robinson exist to allow for intelligence gathering and that police had a reasonable suspicion that he still had links to far-right activists, even after the disbandment of the English Defence League (EDL). Although his membership of the EDL has come to an end, his views have not gone away.

The anti-woke campaigner brought legal action against Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, after the company's artificial intelligence chatbot falsely claimed he took part in the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021, seeking $5 million (£3.75 million) in damages. In August, as part of the settlement, Starbuck was appointed to advise Meta on how to prevent political bias in its AI, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Not too long ago, the situation for Venezuela's "Iron Lady" looked bleak. Machado headed up the effort to oust current Venezuelan presidential strongman Nicolás Maduro democratically during the 2024 election-an effort that failed when the Venezuelan electoral commission blatantly falsified the results to secure yet another term for Maduro. The domestic protest movement she headed up also fizzled out after key opposition leaders were arrested, disappeared, or fled the country to avoid the long arm of the Venezuelan government.

Nigel Farage portrays his Reform UK party as a unique phenomenon that has burst on to the global stage, its meteoric rise an exceptional epochal event. But this week, in every one of Europe's major countries and from India and Thailand to the US and Argentina, hard-right, anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties like his are also ahead in the opinion polls. In last Saturday's Czech elections, the rightwing, pro-Putin populist Andrej Babis toppled prime minister Petr Fiala.