Word: neofascist
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...contest between hope and fear." True enough. There was McCarthyism in the 1950s, the John Birch Society in the 1960s. But there was a difference in those times: the crazies were a faction - often a powerful faction - of the Republican Party, but they didn't run it. The neofascist Father Coughlin had a huge radio audience in the 1930s, but he didn't have the power to control and silence the elected leaders of the party that Limbaugh - who, if not the party's leader, is certainly the most powerful Republican extant - does now. Until recently, the Republican Party contained...
...back of a violent and emotive campaign to destroy the Babri mosque at the sacred Hindu site of Ayodhya, so bringing religion into the very heart of politics. Moreover, the BJP was allied to many extreme Hindu-fundamentalist groups. Indeed, it was founded as the political associate of a neofascist paramilitary organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh...
...anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they lost it again but, encouraged, the B.N.P. together with a handful of other small rightist movements fielded...
Britain's soccer terraces are fertile soil for the neofascist recruiters. In Spain, ultrarightist youths have combined a fondness for Nazi paraphernalia and street violence with a rabid attachment to their home teams, venting their anger on football-field rivals. In Madrid, local matchups resemble a military exercise, as armed police patrol the grounds to separate hooligan bands. Recently, three members of one Barcelona fan club, who frequently boasted of neofascist opinions, were sentenced to 15-year prison terms for killing a young supporter of a rival club...
...fact, representatives of neofascist or far-right parties currently holding as many as 20 seats have scored their most surprising successes in elections for the European Parliament -- even though they abhor the concept of a European Union...