But in Sunday’s election, Sweden demonstrated that no country is immune from the anti-immigrant, far-right backlash. The neo-fascist Sweden Democrats gained 17.6 percent of the vote, upending the country’s traditional party system, and leaving both the existing center-left and center-right coalitions short of a majority. For 80 of the past 101 years, the Social Democratic Party has formed the government in Sweden. The outgoing government is a three-party affair of the Social Democrats, a further-left party, and a centrist one. The Social Democrats became Sweden’s normal majority party back in the 1930s by taking the issue of nationalism away from the far right.

Source: Huffington Post September 10, 2018 13:07 UTC