From Maggie to MAGA: The Transformation of the Conservative Mind

James Bloodworth examines how the rise of the radical-right is not a sudden aberration but the product of decades of neoliberal policy and the collapse of alternatives

Across the West, centre-right parties are being cannibalised by the radical-right.

Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement has successfully completed its takeover of the Republican Party. Meanwhile, in continental Europe, centrist parties are assailed by tub-thumping anti-immigration populists. In Britain, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is riding high in the polls.

These developments have prompted a wider debate about why such radicalisation is taking place. A variety of explanations have been proffered.