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Scandinavian Models

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Rightwing in the United States

There is a debate about whether rightwing populaism is due to culture and values. I think is really down to the economics. You see this in scandinavia and in other countries. It's been in times of difficult economic change lik in the eighties that these populous movements have grown. The sweden democrats were nowhere 20 years ago. But after the global financial crisis and some reforms that left some people on the outside of the labour market, people to marginally attach, suffered more. That's when you saw a rise in the sw Sweden democrats support the far right party there. And so even though scand Scandinavia has managed these things better than most other countries,

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