How to Stop the "Far Right"

The predictable success of so-called "far right" parties in elections across Europe in recent days–combined with the Reform Party leapfrogging the Tories in one of the latest polls–has, naturally, produced a glut of hyperventilating commentary from the world's media led, as usual, by The Guardian.

It would be tempting, understandable and mostly correct to dismiss this reaction as a coping mechanism our elites use to process the rebellion of the ordinary man against their policies. Mass immigration, an obsession with “multiculti utopia”, failure to ensure order and enforce the law, and all the other forms of extreme behaviour that are never described as such. 

Having attempted to suppress dissent against their "progressive" agenda through a combination of overt censorship and political correctness, those who control the media narrative have created a situation where the allegations they so readily level at their fellow citizens are no longer taken seriously by a significant portion of the public. While they spent the last week mocking this man for claiming that accusations of racism have become "boring", what they failed to realise is that a significant and growing portion of the public agree with him privately, even if they're not as willing as he is to say so publicly.

As someone who lost family members in the Holocaust, I have become increasingly disgusted by the way these people have utterly debased very important words like "Nazi", "fascist" and "far right" over the past decade. What makes it worse is that they have done so with utter cynicism and no regard for the obvious consequences. The point of words is to describe reality in a way that generates consensus. "Far right" used to mean skinheads, neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Now it means 1990s liberals who believe in well-managed migration, being careful with big pharma and women without penises.

When the term "far right" is routinely used to describe people whose major crime is to have voted for Brexit or dared to publicly oppose giving 5-year-olds puberty blockers, the inevitable consequence is that if everyone is "far right", no one is. This is a dangerous place to be given that some people really are far right and being able to call them this and be taken seriously is important.

Given the frustrations many people rightly feel about the way the mainstream parties and their media facilitators have run our countries, it is tempting to turn a blind eye to the fact that while The Guardian will screech “far right” at anyone and everyone, lurking within these populist revolt movements are some genuinely unsavoury characters. 

So, how do we stop this becoming a problem? If you’re a member of what I call the “avocado toast brigade”—i.e., people who live in leafy metropolitan areas in wealth and comfort, unaffected by the consequences of mass immigration and rising crime—you are no doubt reaching for bans, censorship and, the elite go-to of foreign interference.

The solution, however, is much simpler.