Is the rise of the far right ending?

The resounding slap to Trump, Lula's triumph, the changes in Bulgaria, and the youth riots throughout Europe are good news. They seem to announce that the growth of the far right is stopping, halted by its own rashness and omnipotence. I must say that, personally, it was my most optimistic hypothesis; while these parties presented themselves as an alternative to the democratic parties that have held hegemony for years, which have clearly worn thin in power and, above all, have lost power due to the growth of multinationals, they could channel the hope of many people who have been becoming impoverished in this stage of toxic capitalism. But the far right's haste to change everything, to impose its law of the strongest, has been so great that the population has very quickly understood what they intended and is reacting and seeking other alternatives.

It is the best thing that could happen: that they acted quickly so that their true face could be seen. However, can we think that with the weakening or disappearance of these devastating and arrogant leaders the anti-democratic threat ends? I have the impression that no, even though this is an important factor.

We tend to think that the politics of Trump, or Milei, or Bolsonaro, or so many others, are due to their personal characteristics, their megalomania, egocentrism, lack of empathy, etc. And there is something to that, certainly. But why do people, many people, suddenly vote for these bilious characters, who personally inspire so little trust? For two reasons; because things are not going well, democratic leaders have lost credibility and these apprentice dictators promise simple, apparently successful solutions aimed at the common good. But if we look beyond the individual fact, the underlying issues are different, which have often been pointed out by sociology, the task of which is precisely to try to understand the social structure and its changes at any given moment.

And what is it that characterizes the current stage? What we can call a change of elites, or, to be more exact, a change of the ruling class. The bourgeoisies born and raised with the growth of industry, and very especially, in the case of the United States, of the automotive industry, which represented a profound change in society, have already entered into decline, or, above all, are being replaced by another social group, led by the great entrepreneurs of the new technologies, who at this moment dominate the world markets and are getting rich in proportions never achieved before. A small, but extremely powerful group, which does not accept norms or barriers that condition its enrichment, its project to arrive at possessing the majority, or the totality, of the world's wealth.

And as always when a new ruling class arrives, which bases its power on a new form of production, the first thing it does is try to erase all the norms that, over the years, the elites that preceded it have had to agree upon. Out with any pact, now what interests me will be done, even if, to achieve it, I have to annihilate the institutions, the norms, the conventions, the codes of coexistence long worked on in the previous years. Trump, Bolsonaro, Milei and so many others are nothing but puppets at the service of these new masters, who will not hesitate to change horses if, suddenly, their leaders have done so badly that people begin to reject their political recipes, because, to put it colloquially, they have seen through them.

I do not want to weaken the hope that is born with the kick in the backside that North American society has just dealt its president. I hope that, given the verdict of the North Americans after two years of misgovernment in their country, there will be many people everywhere who reject these types of proposals, at a moment when it is urgent to establish other policies for the redistribution of wealth, to rethink the migratory phenomenon, and to work to diminish the destruction of the planet that shelters us and without which we would not exist. If only a few devastators of this moment would go to Mars, never to return. But we must not let our guard down; these types of rising classes are deeply selfish, and, if they need to, they will renounce their current leaders, but only to replace them with smarter ones who know how to measure the impact of their policies, or, directly, by eliminating democracy, for which they have no respect, because, among other things, they believe themselves to be possessors of a superior intelligence.