Europe’s far-right is getting more vocal. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave a speech a few days ago saying he wanted to stop his country from becoming “mixed race.” In Italy, the next prime minister could be from a party that’s been described as “post-fascist.” And France’s Nationalist Party — with its xenophobic bent — has been gaining seats in the French Legislature. Host Marco Werman spoke with Hans-Georg Betz, a political scientist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, who is following this.
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