The new political course is crossed by a global authoritarian wave. We see it clearly in the chronic genocide in Gaza and in the war in Ukraine. We see it in the xenophobic messages that flood the public debate, supporting migration as the axis of a global anti-democratic agenda. We saw it in the recent regional elections in Germany, and we see it daily in the algorithm of a social network that has become an instrument of amplification of this authoritarian offensive.
However, it is important to remember that the far right has also racked up significant electoral defeats in this recent cycle. Its triumph is not set in stone. Moreover, we know the recipe for defeating it. Philosopher Wendy Brown summed it up elegantly: “More than ideological persuasion, social justice is all that stands between maintaining the promise of democracy and abandoning that promise altogether.”
