After a decade in ascendance, ultraconservative populism appears to be on the wane. Viktor Orbán lost last weekend’s election in Hungary and, with the war on Iran and, apparently, the Pope, Donald Trump’s bombast is alienating even ardent cheerleaders. But in South Africa, Gayton McKenzie is betting on its staying power.
Niren Tolsi is a Cape Town-based journalist.
This article originally appeared appeared in The Continent – Issue 235.
Africa (en), Mainstreaming of Far Right Ideas (en), Niren Tolsi (en), South Africa (en), The Far Right (en), The Far Right in Africa (en), Xenophobia (en)
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