The collapse of the centre-right in European politics is freaking out eurolibtards, they are doing everything they can to pressure the centre-right to align with them against populist 'radical-right' challengers and for good reason - research shows that the centre-right making short-term politically self-interested moves to accommodate challengers from the right only further fuels their rise, legitimizing and normalizing their talking points and policies. European center-right parties are therefore stuck between a rock and a hard place, their options are either to delegitimise themselves by allying with leftists or legitimise the populist-right parties stealing their voters.

In recent weeks, Spain’s conservative People’s party has fallen just short of victory in a general election despite declaring its readiness to govern with the anti-immigration Vox party, which has intellectual roots in Franco’s fascist ideology. The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) opposition, Friedrich Merz, suggested his party should work locally – though not at national or European level – with the extreme-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which has soared to second place in national opinion polls. However, Merz had to row back after protests from within his party.

And the successor to Dutch prime minister Marc Rutte as leader of the centre-right liberal VVD party, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, (Rutte resigned in July triggering a snap election that will be held in November) has ditched a longstanding refusal to work with Wilders’ anti-immigrant PVV party.

Mainstream conservative governments in Sweden and Finland meanwhile have taken office thanks to the support of hard-right nationalists in, respectively, the Sweden Democrats and the Finns party.

In Germany, the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, which bestrode the country’s postwar political landscape for decades, scored just 24.1% in the 2021 general election following Merkel’s retirement. Even with its current 26% rating, the centre-right has no hope of forming a conservative government without the AfD, which is polling above 20%. Yet cooperating with the nativists has hitherto been taboo, not least because of the long shadow of Germany’s Nazi past.

But all over Europe, mainstream conservatives face the same dilemma as they struggle to win back lost chunks of their electorate among blue-collar, rural and middle-class voters, and to attract younger people tempted by a far-right protest vote or abstention.

Marginalising and demonising the radical right has failed to staunch the losses. Adopting part of the populists’ vocabulary and policy on issues such as migration and identity has not worked either, except perhaps for Denmark’s Social Democrats.

In deciding whether to ostracise, imitate or forge alliances with the nationalist hard right, Europe’s mainstream centre-right parties must choose between potentially losing voters and losing their souls.

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Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, and the last lecture is now available. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-546-greg-johnson-on-platos-gorgias-lecture-5/

Jim Goad on the neckbearded fat boy who gunned down three blacks at a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, Florida over the weekend; the Associated Press accusing Trump of using "coded racial messaging"; and a "Queer Identified Transman” who offered a public prayer urging whites to go bonkers with self-hatred. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-worst-week-yet-142/

Clarissa Schnabel on a recent search for the bodies of German soldiers who were massacred by the French Resistance in Meymac, France during World War II after a former Resistance fighter came forward with the facts. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-lost-soldiers-of-meymac/

Asier Abadroa's essay "The Nation is a Biological Group," showing how the differences in measurable statistics between nations proves that racial biology is the ultimate determining factor of a nation's qualities, is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/la-nacion-es-un-grupo-biologico/

Counter-Currents is pleased to announce some new perks and privileges for donors who gain access to our Paywall by contributing at least $120 a year. See the link for details. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/new-paywall-privilege/

Greg Johnson and guest co-host Pox Populi welcomed David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute on the first half of last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio broadcast to talk about the Institute’s history so far, as well as its purpose and goals. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-547-david-zsutty-of-the-homeland-institute/

The Union Jackal on an autistic girl in the UK being arrested for saying that a police officer looks like her "lesbian nana," the proliferation of "ultra-low emission zones" where drivers have to pay fees to use their cars in certain areas, the death of talk show legend Sir Michael Parkinson, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-union-jackal-august-2023/

Morris van de Camp on the famine that was induced in Kazakhstan in the 1930s at the behest of the Soviet leadership in a forgotten counterpart to Ukraine's Holodomor. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/famine-in-1930s-kazakhstan/

One of our biggest goals right now should be undermining the de facto belief that the 1964 Civil Rights Act is morally unquestionable. We need to sell the public on the idea, on the truth, that it was immoral, that it was inhuman, and that it in fact violated our "Civil Rights." To do this, we need to be magnanimous, articulate and reasoned in our presentations. It is completely counter productive to embrace Hollywood caricatures of "hate-filled monsters." We ARE the good guys. We ARE morally righteous. It is our opponents who are morally misguided. We need to show that THEIR world view causes more harm and suffering and chaos than ours. We are the people with the answers to the world's problems today. Not them.

Ondrej Mann interviews Frank Kraemer, the German author, metapolitical activist, and member of the band Stahlgewitter about his musical tastes, the situation in Germany today, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/metapolitics-in-germany-part-1/

The second half of last weekend's broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, Pox Populi, and David Zsutty on Current Things, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-548-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson-pox-populi-david-zsutty/

Beau Albrecht on the many ways in which the Left has weaponized language to advance its anti-white agenda. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/a-brief-overview-of-politically-weaponized-buzzwords/

Here is the second half of Ondej Mann's interview with Frank Kraemer, the German author, metapolitical activist, and member of the band Stahlgewitter in which he talks about nationalism in Germany, his collaboration with the black Left-wing activist Nana Domea, Germanness, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/metapolitics-in-germany-part-2/

Greg Johnson's classic essay on the moral question in White Nationalism is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/nueva-derecha-vs-vieja-derecha-capitulo-7/

Jim Goad on how the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia went from an ordinary, white-majority area to a multicultural hellscape full of drug addicts. Includes an audio version read by Jim Goad. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/all-roads-lead-to-kensington/

David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute was Gaddius Maximus‘ guest on last weekend’s broadcast of Building a Third Force, where they discussed Mr. Zsutty’s background, the mission of the Homeland Institute, polling, and the lack of and need for genuine nationalist political institutions. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/gaddius-maximus-and-david-zsutty-on-the-need-for-nationalist-political-institutions/

Paroled from the Paywall: Kenneth Vinther on the fact that the idea that elections force politicians to be accountable to their constituents, or that they lead to governments which reflect the wishes of the average voter, is really nothing more than a folk theory about democracy. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/misrepresentative-government-why-democracy-doesnt-work-part-iv/

Stephen Paul Foster on how Stalin turned Leon Trotsky into the demon of Trotskyism, and why Stalinism's successors today remain so fixated on "-isms." https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-relentless-persistence-of-stalinism/

Morris van de Camp reviews Norman Solomon's War Made Invisible, a clear-sighted look at the forces driving America's endless wars overseas. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/an-old-time-liberal-offers-a-clear-sighted-view-of-americas-endless-wars/

Paroled from the Paywall: Alain de Benoist on how liberalism evolved out of Christianity and gradually came to displace the holistic traditional societies that preceded it. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/against-liberalism-chapter-i-part-i/