Around the world in the early twenty-first century, as the multinational companies that roam the globe become more powerful than the political states vying for their favor, it is the right wing that is on the move. Rightwing regimes—focused on national sentiment, strong central rule, and intolerance for minorities or dissent—have come to power in Russia, where President Putin has declared dissident voices as a sign of weakness and “Western influence”; in India, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared India a “Hindu” nation; in Hungary, where anti-Soviet monuments are being replaced
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