You took the words right out of my mouth.

As someone who has been left wing, I too have migrated to the right.

The Left, including this author has no clue about the Right and just regurgitates the same old lines.

Because of that, the Left in its ignorance will be the thing that actually causes the Right to rise.

It is a populist thing which means it is going to be harder to reverse because people are seeing that Multiculteralism is turning into a real nightmare where the host culture and peoples of said countries are being replaced.

The Left doesn’t want to recognizable that and believes that materialism is the cause and solution for everything. The Right (true right) isn’t built upon materialism.

Like you mentioned there are a host of countries that don’t fall into the poverty= extremism simplistic scenario. When you import 3rd World immigrants you will get 3rd World countries.

There has been little analysis of this in the US Main Stream Media [MSM] as it’s called.

I think I got RP’s link from the Guardian or the BBC.

RP’s Mr Walker writes the way to defeat the far right is to defend the right of all ppL to have good jobs, housing and social services.

But this ignores one of the main strengths of the right: its emphasis on cultural issues.

Th Swiss voting almost unanimously to ban the building of minarets wasnt based on economics.

And this is probably true of the Finnish and Danish govts almost banning immigration. [I believe Japan has had this policy for decades but it's almost never criticized as xenophobic or neo-fascist.]

In the US, Culture War rhetoric promoted mainly by the right, and it’s definitely effective in winning them votes.

As a newly minted American hybrid populist who migrated right-ward from being a moderate Democrat, the party of John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson’s Great [socialist] Society, I agree w/ the right on maintaining the Anglo culture and not having mosques ring their prayer bells at 11 PM, nor allowing Moslem cab drivers to reject riders that are carry packages of alcohol, nor requiring police officers to remove their shoes when entering the homes of Moslems, etc.

Multi-culturalism is feeding the growth of the right as much as the Great Recession is. Probably moreso in the US where the right won a huge victory in 2010 in electing many extreme rightists to the House just about a year after the Great Recession of the extreme right Bush/Cheney administration ended here in June, 2009.

US voters didnt hold the right accountable for the recession.

But they see the left as the parties enabling the Islamification and excessive immigration that they strongly reject.

So that’s the dilemma for the left: if it continues to maintain its ideology of multiculturalism, it will probably keep suffering significant electoral losses.

As for the US, the last thing it needs to do is import poverty as it’s doing w/ almost-unrestricted immmigration from Latin America.

Then there’s the almost-taboo issue of immigration and infectious disease.

The Guardian reports London has become the tuberculosis capital of W. Euro, with 50% of its cases in immmigrants from Africa and South Asia.

While Mr Walker’s rhetoric of “humiliating” the right and “hounding it off the streets” may sound rousing, it evades the left’s need to deal w/ the cultral albatross around its neck.

And what would hounding the right off the street look like…the Reds vs the Brownshirts in 1930s Germany?

I think Hitler called that the beer-hall wars.

Not a good idea considering the rise of the populist right.