A new world order? Fico and Trump’s national conservatism mirrors Nazism

On Thursday, a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, conservatives are gathering under his leadership in Washington, D.C., for the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).

This traditional annual conference, which has shaped the direction of American conservatism since 1974, has in recent years transformed into a showcase for national conservatism – an ideology that now unites opponents of liberal democracy.

Among the speakers will be Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Until recently, he falsely and manipulatively branded himself a social democrat, but today he stands among those proclaiming new world orders.

It will be crucial to watch what messages emerge from this gathering, as a kind of national conservative revolution is unfolding not only in Western democracies. “We have returned to the main street of history,” declared Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in late January in Bratislava, following a meeting with Fico – just a day after Trump assumed power for the second time.

But it is not just Trump, Orbán, or Fico. It includes Marine Le Pen in France, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Jair Bolsonaro in Brasil, Jarosław Kaczyński and Poland’s PiS, as well as the Brexit movement under Nigel Farage. It has absorbed elements of Putin’s Russian fascism and shares ideological roots with Narendra Modi’s Hindu conservatism and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly Islamist regime.

For now, it seems that national conservatism will dominate political discourse for the coming decades. Yet history offers a clear parallel: when an ideology built on national identity is wielded by autocratic populists against democracy, the outcome is clear. National socialism.

Nat con thus presents itself as a rebellion against the developments of the past 30 years, for which it blames the liberal-democratic elites. However, this is not a revolution in the true sense of the word – one that redefines social reality and offers new solutions.

Rather, it is a counter-revolution led by autocrats and allied oligarchs, who continue to benefit from the current system. Natcon offers no concrete, evidence-based solutions. They lack the ability to govern effectively – so instead, they resort to destruction.)

This is why a state of democratic emergency and mobilisation is essential.Otherwise, the new world will be defined by autocratic national conservatives at conferences like the one opening today in Washington.

https://spectator.sme.sk/opinion/c/a-new-world-order-fico-and-trump-s-national-conservatism-mirrors-nazism

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Vo štvrtok, mesiac po inaugurácii Donalda Trumpa za prezidenta Spojených štátov, sa pod jeho vedením schádzajú vo Washingtone D. C. v Spojených štátoch konzervatívci na výročnej konferencii CPAC (Konferencia konzervatívnej politickej akcie).

Tradičná výročná konferencia sa v uplynulých rokoch zmenila na exhibíciu nacionálneho konzervativizmu, ktorý dnes zjednocuje všetkých oponentov liberálnej demokracie.

Na konferencii vystúpi aj slovenský premiér Robert Fico. Ešte donedávna sa označoval za sociálneho demokrata, síce nesprávne a manipulatívne, no dnes patrí medzi tých, ktorí ohlasujú nové svetové poriadky.

Bude dôležité sledovať, aké posolstvá zrazu zaznejú, pretože nielen v západných demokraciách prebieha akási nacionálne konzervatívna revolúcia.

Nateraz sa zdá, že sa nacionálny konzervativizmus stane na najbližšie dekády dominantnou politickou paradigmou. História však ponúka jednoznačnú paralelu, čo sa stane keď sa proti demokracii postaví ideológia budovaná na národnom princípe, ktorou sa vyzbroja autokratickí populisti. Národný socializmus.



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