Looks like there's a weird competition between the 🇦🇹 People’s Party and the far-right FPÖ on who meets the most far-right Italian politicians? After Chancellor Nehammer posted his picture with Meloni yesterday, far-right politician Marlene Svazek posted hers with Salvini today.

Man philosophiert darüber was man alles in einer Demokratie tun oder nicht tun soll ... und dabei redet man über eine Partei die demokratische Werte mit Füßen treten will. #imzentrum

When illiberal, populist, far-right forces will take Europe and destroy it from within, don't pretend it happened overnight, or without a bunch of red flags waving Also, if you can, watch Democracy Noir directed by Connie Field

🇺🇸Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts just received a Hungarian state award, the Order of Merit of Hungary. Recently, Viktor Orbán claimed that his team is deeply involved in drafting Trump’s policy agenda, though he did not specify whether this referred to the Heritage's Project 2025.👀

Interesting that Orbán has no problem being deeply involved in the Trump policy agenda while he complains about 'foreign influence' back home all the time 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

#Hungary The court referral in the case of the #SovereigntyProtectionLaw symbolizes that the heyday of democracy and #RuleOfLaw protection in the EU is over. My piece published on EUobserver 👇 euobserver.com/rule-of-law/ar…

✍️ I wrote this short piece—published today in Political Communication 📓—outlining the evolution of the contemporary far right from opposition to control, and from counter-hegemonic to hegemonic force. Here I also discuss ongoing challenges for far-right research. doi.org/10.1080/105846…

from my book project with Nick Carnes (inactive; BlueSky link in Bio), Keeping Workers Off the Ballot. Grey bars are share of working-class jobs (manual, service, clerical) in each democracy's labor force. Tiny black bars are share of nat'l lawmakers who had WC jobs when they first got into politics. (2/2)

In case a new, similar law pops up in Hungary, you know where it came from 👇🏻

Happy to have contributed to this Social Europe piece with Cas Mudde on recent far-right victories in Europe (🇩🇪 & 🇦🇹). tl;dr: Normalisation of far-right ideas has changed the normative consensus. The far right is relevant, and it is here to stay. socialeurope.eu/far-right-wins…