In Germany, Social Democrats beat the incumbent conservatives in 2021 and the hard-right AfD lost seats. In France, Marine Le Pen improved her performance by a few points but was still handily defeated by the incumbent centrist. Last year, Jair Bolsonaro was turfed out in Brazil and replaced by a socialist. We have Slovakia, where social democratic parties dominated against the incumbent conservatives in September. We have Spain, where lefties remained in power in the October election. But we also have Poland, where the illiberal Law & Justice party was pummeled in October and will be replaced by a liberal coalition. Commenting on the Geert Wilders victory in the Netherlands, he says "much of the world is moving in a right-wing direction."īut is that true? Yes, we have the evidence of Italy and now the Netherlands this year. Tyler Cowen got me curious about something yesterday.
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