Far-right party close to causing huge political upset in Sweden's neck-and-neck election

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18. That isn't true...these people are dangerous and you could see laws against Jews, immigrants

and other 'undesirables/minorities' not seen since Germany in the 30s. I heard recently how people here admired the new English PM...she is Trump in a skirt and with all UK's issues (they can't feed themselves), her priority is tax cuts. She also has 'flipped' (was it a flip though?) and now favors Brexit.

I will lay odds she will cut the medical and other safety net programs. Consider what conservatives have managed to do to the UK in the last 20 years. These folks may not be 'crass' like Trump but they are dangerous. And it is mostly a minority rule in these countries thanks to multiple parties.

As for Sweden, it was frightening to see a party aligned in many ways with Nazism gain power. Europe has a dark history in this regard with 100's of millions dead in WWII in Europe.

“There are rightwing populist parties in many European countries, but the Sweden Democrats have deep roots in the Swedish neo-Nazis and other racist organizations in Sweden,” said Andersson, speaking on a campaign bus emblazoned with the words Vårt Sverige kan bättre (Our Sweden can do better).

“And still today, I mean just last week, one employee at their central headquarters invited the other employees to celebrate the Nazis’ invasion of Poland during the second world war. I mean, it’s not like other parties.”

In other examples, she cited a television interview in February in which the party’s leader, Jimmie Åkesson, refused to say whether he preferred Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin, and Åkesson’s recent criticism of the Centre party leader Annie Lööf’s tone after she was the suspected target of a terror attack"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/magdalena-andersson-interview-far-right-threat-sweden-election