The nationalist Right, not the left, has delivered debt cancellation in recent years
Evidence
Paradoxically, as Melinda Cooper (2020) shows, over the last decade, a surging nationalist Right has been more effective in championing and delivering debt canceling. In Hungary, for instance, Viktor OrbĆ”n has unilaterally canceled a quarter of foreign-exchange household debt, acting in apparent disregard for central bank independence. ā Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 311
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Directly feeds the readerās financialized-populism thesis: right-wing populists deliver speculative/redistributive goods to their base, complicating the āvoting against your interestsā frame.