March 14, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
04:49
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| Time | Text |
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| Want some good news? | |
| I think it's good news. | |
| You never know in life. | |
| That's the reason, well, I can't say you never know. | |
| But certainly on the macro level, as opposed to personal issues, I mean, if you got better after a serious illness, that's good news. | |
| It's hard to imagine why it would turn out to be bad news. | |
| But I think this is good news. | |
| It comes from the Washington Post, which thinks it's really bad news. | |
| Cool, this is the title of the column. | |
| Cool to be far right? | |
| Young Europeans are stirring a political earthquake. | |
| Always wonder, does the Washington Post or the New York Times ever describe any left-wing party as far left? | |
| It's like whenever I'm described in the media, it's a conservative talk show host, but they never list liberal talk show hosts. | |
| Never, right? | |
| Nobody's on the left. | |
| You're either right or far right. | |
| On a continent better known for left-wing youth activism, a la Greta Thunberg, Polls show that young Europeans are fueling the growth of the far right. | |
| See? | |
| Not the right, the far right. | |
| From France to Sweden to the Netherlands. | |
| There isn't a... | |
| I read the entire article. | |
| I did not pick up any soul-searching. | |
| Like, hmm... | |
| Maybe we've really screwed their lives? | |
| Like with the lockdowns? | |
| And the gigantic government spending, which has left so little money for the private sector. | |
| Okay. | |
| In a year when former President Donald Trump is making a bid to take back the White House. | |
| Hmm. | |
| Take back the White House. | |
| I didn't catch that the first time I read it. | |
| Take back the White House. | |
| All right. | |
| Doesn't matter. | |
| We'll leave that. | |
| Multiple European governments may be headed for a rightward shift, propelled by voters in their late teens, twenties, and early thirties. | |
| Why is that happening in Europe and not here? | |
| I don't know the answer. | |
| So, here's Portugal. | |
| The rise of Chega. | |
| Chega means enough in Portuguese. | |
| It's an interesting name for a party, enough. | |
| Because when it comes to the growth of the state and increase in laws, it's never enough for the left. | |
| It's being viewed as a signal that the far right can surge anywhere in Europe and that disenchanted youths can be convinced that ultraconservatism is cool. | |
| In the Netherlands, in November, anti-migrant stalwart Geert Wilders staged a shocking first-place finish in an election that saw his party claim the largest share of voters between 18 and 34. So again, Geert Wilders, far right. | |
| Anybody who does not want essentially unlimited migration is far right. | |
| Geert Wilders is actually in many ways heroic. | |
| His moral stance on Israel is quite remarkable. | |
| But of course many liberals will read this far-right and think, oh, he must be an anti-Semite when he turns out to be one of the best friends Jews in the Netherlands and in Europe have. | |
| But the moral confusion is... | |
| What is it like, the bubonic plague? | |
| It just keeps spreading. | |
| And that was the Netherlands, and that was Portugal. | |
| Then they go on. | |
| Austria's far-right Freedom Party is counting on young voters to propel a victory in this year's national election after winning the largest share of the youth vote in regional elections in Salzburg last year. |
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