That’s a good article at the link.
It shows how the far-right acts just like every other cult- finding vulnerable and miserable people, and telling them that they do matter after all. Then as they’re drawn in, ask for deeper and deeper commitment to the new group/cause/way of life. Then they start cutting off routes of escape.
And if we’re going to fight it, we need to look at disrupting both sides of the recruitment process. We need to disrupt the far right’s ability to target vulnerable, alienated youngsters, but more importantly, we need to stop creating so many vulnerable, alienated, depressed people as targets in the first place.
We really need to look at why current societies are creating so many people who can be targeted by the far-right. We don’t want to give them a target-rich environment to recruit from, and stopping them now is a lot easier than stopping them later. Citations for that last sentence can be found all the way from the Volga to the Atlantic.
