10 Faced with the democratic crisis we've been experiencing in recent years, especially with the rise of the populist right—or pre-fascist populism—the question is more than obvious: how did we get here? The truth is, this crisis was foreseeable decades ago, and although there were always those who pointed to this problem, seeing fascism everywhere, it was the political class itself that cultivated the ground for all these poisonous fruits to now emerge. Democracy, as we know, is weak, or at least, to defend itself, it doesn't usually do the same things dictatorships do, even though it is the yearning for or nostalgia for dictatorship that has given wings to the neo-right: its discourse is older than walking.

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