European populisms from the 1960s to today all inherit the racial-purity drive

Evidence

In turn, the drive to maintain Europe for Europeans fueled the Nazis, driving the Reich to seek to “cleanse” not only the German patria but the extension of Europe more broadly of all polluting presence. And it has fueled political promptings and populist outbursts more recently – from Enoch Powell and later Margaret Thatcher in Britain of the late 1960s and 1970s to the Haiders of Austria and Le Pens of France in the 1990s or the Pim Fortuyns, Rita Verdonks, or Geert Wilders of millenial Netherlands and the Flip der Winters of Belgium. Europe for Europeans, first biologically and more recently conceived in terms of national cultural cohesion, of cohering civilization, of political populism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 953

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• SHARE: The named roster — Powell, Thatcher, Haider, Le Pen, Fortuyn, Verdonk, Wilders, Dewinter — is a handy one-sentence genealogy to share with someone tracking European far-right history.