Even the mayor of a small city could outflank most of the Democratic Party on Gaza right now

https://twitter.com/Pinko69420/status/1912602712463769869

There's kind of a paradox where people who express things like this are both told to shut up, while at the same time there's a belief that they don't matter

There are more than 2 months left and it is totally conceivable that Zohran could win if you're looking at these numbers. Not that he will win, obviously, but that he could win. Good poll for him and also stunning that he's come this far from obscurity

https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1912150502868983974

He still has a gap to cross but it's not an insurmountable gap when you have money, buzz, and perhaps when your opponent is Andrew Cuomo

https://twitter.com/FT/status/1877055152017838090

I guess yeah. 70s-style Latin American sci-fi militarism

Now that "slop" has become a term that most people grasp we can imagine "anti-slop" as the potential core of a political movement Quality controls. There are many areas even where this transcends any kind of left-right divide (although there is a profit motive for slop supported by right-wing economics and the endless drive for culture war engagement)

"AfD is most popular in the same areas of Germany that were most resistant to the Nazis"

Completely, unfathomably wrong

https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1874894133862769149

But like, "right" is nowhere near the aim here. It's just saying something that sounds like it could be true that will go mostly unchecked to his audience

Lmfao here we go I mean I think she doesn't run, but at the same time polls like this are going to tempt a lot of people in her world. Yes it's name recognition but it's also a question of "can you stop me"

In Austria
- the nationalist Freedom Party wins first place for the first time
- it's the first far-right victory in Austria since WW2
- leader Herbert Kickl has made Nazi allusions
- could form coalition with conservatives, but they don't want him for PM This nevertheless applies pressure to both Austria's political system and Europe's red lines against the far-right as a whole. Like Meloni's party in Italy, the Freedom Party has Nazi roots (and was subject to continental backlash when they formed part of a coalition in 1999)

Here is a thread. What to know about potential for a far-right surge in EU2024 elections

- Germany, France and Italy, largest countries by seats in the EU parliament (251/705), all have strong far-right parties
- AfD polls 22%; French and Italian far-right in mid 30% range - Seats go to 720 in 2024
- Far-right is divided between three groups: ECR (home to Meloni, Polish Law and Justice) and ID (Salvini, AfD, Le Pen), along with various unaffiliated parties/members of the Non-Inscrits. That's where you'll find parties of the extreme-right (cont.)

Truly insane developments in Romania right now. A hardcore ultranationalist candidate is surging in a new poll for next year's presidential election. Diana Sosoaca frequently campaigns with images of "Greater Romania"- which would annex territory from most of its neighbors The story of how this happened is pretty revealing. AUR, a nationalist party, made it into the Romanian parliament back in 2020, electing Sosoaca with them as an MP. She split the party, and founded her own more extremist effort. Now she's polling tied with the AUR candidate

Javier Milei takes office as Argentina's president in 4 days.

He plans to initiate a program of "economic shock therapy," which entails extreme spending cuts along with mass privatization.

Milei: “Everything which can be in private sector hands, will be in private sector hands" Shock therapy has a history in Latin America and will be familiar to those who have learned about Chile's military junta, which pursued a similar strategy guided by the Milton Friedman-influenced "Chicago Boys"

You will never believe what is going on with the Bavarian AfD

(This guy is 22 years old) A *legislator*, he was just elected in the Bavarian state election that was held this month

- Brazil had a president who supported the past military dictatorship
- Runner-up candidate in Chile also openly supported the Pinochet regime
- Obligatory mention of Keiko Fujimori in Peru
- Now Argentina could have a president (and VP) who apologizes for the 1976 dictatorship Milei is a far-right libertarian so it's a different brand of politics compared to someone like Bolsonaro, but the theme here is a radical shift in historical memory toward authoritarian regimes that you can actually observe around the world

The AfD hit an all-time record in any state today: Saxony, where they're polling at 35%.

This marks the second German state alongside Thuringia where the AfD is in the 30s now

https://twitter.com/Wahlrecht_de/status/1697300833124106654

Moreover the high German threshold of 5% means that 35% could be outsized in state parliament, with almost 40% of seats or more depending on how other parties shake out

Ruuben Kaalep is a former Estonian MP for the far-right Conservative People's Party, who was elected to parliament when he was just 25 years old. A self-described "ethnofuturist" poet and philosopher, Kaalep drew frequent media coverage for his links to neo-Nazi groups Like, Atomwaffen links

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1450931284923060241

Total election surprise in Ecuador as 35-year-old Daniel Noboa, banana businessman and heir to the Noboa banana fortune, places second in today's presidential election.

Noboa was only polling around 5% on average, and ended up with well over 20% of the vote Noboa's father is Alvaro Noboa, who ran for president like 5 or 6 times and never won

One of Milei's libertarian candidates for national legislature in Argentina is a superhero cosplayer, here she is as Raven from Teen Titans. She also just got in trouble for saying she's "currently cosplaying as a congressional candidate" (lol)

Wearing her "Milei as anime" t-shirt

66% counted in Argentina, the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei currently leads all other political blocs.

If it holds, this would be not just a shock to Argentina's politics, but forebodes a global political earthquake, as Milei could suddenly be favored to win Flies counter to not only polls but most analysis of the election that considered Milei's numbers to be significant but with dim chances of being elected

Why a global political earthquake? This is an "anarcho-capitalist" leading a major country, propelled by an internet movement

Some descendants of famous US politicians

1. Eisenhower's granddaughter 2. Theodore Roosevelt V (his great-great-grandson)

This image appeared in a video that was retweeted by the DeSantis campaign (and then quickly deleted) (via @ltthompso)

After hinting he may be considering a run for president, Waystar Royco CEO Tom Wambsgans appears at 3% in today's ORC poll for the Republican primary This is a land of wolves. You get one night for "no spoilers" posting

https://twitter.com/IReallyCantPick/status/1663281622299422721

Right-wing nationalists are poised for a lot of influence across Western Europe:

- Leading govt in Italy
- AfD hits 18% in Germany
- Vlaams Belang leading polls in Flanders
- Le Pen party with its best prospects ever
- Chega hitting 15% in Portugal
- Vox key to govt in Spain Note on Vox: That's the most likely outcome according to polls. A general election will be held on July 23rd. If confirmed the country would ratify a right-wing shift, as Vox could also support or enter regional governments in 6 different Spanish communities