Over the past few years, especially since 2012 after the world did not end, we have all seen a massive surge of right wing politics. They range from your garden variety loons who deny the Holocaust or think the Earth is flat, to anti-feminists (not necessarily right wing by the way), but the main influx is the lower class, middle class support for free markets, neo-liberalism and concrete border controls that come with accompanying Islamophobia and antisemitism.

I have some theories and perspectives as to how this came to be, but I thought I would open up a thread for everyone to share their thoughts about how this all led to what I call the rise of the right.