The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
I don&#x27;t think I agree with the article. Not from a European perspective. I&#x27;m Danish and we&#x27;ve had anti-establishment parties all my life on both the left and right side of the political spectrum. The populist rightwingers most similar to Trump and the teaparty saw their dawn in 1998 where they got elected with 7.4% of the votes. In 2001, three months after 9&#x2F;11, they recived 12%. In 2005 it was 13.3%. In 2007, before the financial crisis they got 13.9%. In 2011 they got 12.3% and then in 2015 they got their current 21.1%.<p>If you look at the data, our right wing populist party saw a small decline following the financial crisis. They saw two major increases, one following 9&#x2F;11 and one at the height of the European migration crisis but at this point our economy had fully recovered.<p>I think it&#x27;s some what like this around much of Europe. Back in 2001 we got critiqued by the European Council because we elected a racist party to government, but Austria recieved much sterner critique at the same time. In Eastern Europe the local economies have seen huge increases along with right-wing populism. Greece, who took the worst of the financial crisis, turned to the intellectual left, not populism.<p>I think the article is probably on point about America. The tea-party saw it&#x27;s dawn in the years following the financial crisis. You had the occupy movement and now you have the alt-right. We didn&#x27;t really see similar movements in Europe though. I guess we do today, and I think we&#x27;re unfortunately receiving a lot of bad influence from America. I mean, I can go on the Danish subreddit right now and see people complain about the MSM. Which makes no sense, because our media-landscape is completely different from the American. On facebook we have anti-vaxxer and flathearter groups, mostly using sources like infowars or breitbart because we simply don&#x27;t have nonsense-media equivalents in my country. At least not yet.<p>So I guess, in a way the article isn&#x27;t wrong, but all the nonsense is happening in an economy that&#x27;s mostly better than before 2007.