It's pretty much the same story, repeated all over the world: leftists are scuppered, sabotaged, smeared, and stamped out by those who still consider themselves liberal "centrists"; the working class mass majority have few appealing options to vote for; the rest of the voting population, sick of the status quo and professional politicians yet lacking any class consciousness, give votes to the far right; the "centrists" claim this to be the will of the people so themselves shift further right, rendering themselves irrelevant; the far right become the largest or second largest party; liberal pundits who aided and abetted in the first step ask "how did it happen?"