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how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics

  • Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Great crises are a stimulus to right-wing political mobilisation. Famously, the Great Depression of the 1930s gave the Nazis their chance. It was a good time for fascists or near-fascists in other countries as well, including Australia. Here, the ground was thick with the Old Guard, New Guard, White Army,...

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