It has happened, and therefore it can happen again. In the U.S., in Europe, in Israel, in Palestine, etc.

The EU has not yet proven that it can resist pressure from the far right—and given its ideological, economic, material, digital, and social US-entanglements, it is far from clear that the EU will not eventually follow the same path.

Many Europeans are deluding themselves when it comes to geopolitics: driven by ideological convictions rooted in the unipolar era, they perpetuate enemy stereotypes, think in terms of blocs, and thereby set the stage for their own slide into authoritarianism