Like the Trump primary voters in the US, success snuck up on them and caught them unprepared, and now they don't quite seem to know what to do with it.

The sudden flourishing of neo-fascist movements and philosophy in the USA, Europe, Russia, China, Japan and the ANZAC countries (BTW, is Canada getting any of this, is there a growing right wing movement there too?) seems to suggest that there are fundamental changes going on that are driving events. The world is starting to look and feel a lot like it did almost a century ago, when authoritarian right wing regimes started flexing their muscles all over Europe, Japan and the Americas.

The middle classes in modern industrial societies seem to have a tendency to react this way to economic distress that challenges the hope they have for an ever-rising wave of prosperity. The boom of the 1920s led to the Depression, and soon to World War as the economic malaise sweeping the world threatened to become a permanent fixture. We're seeing what looks a lot like a replay of that old movie, about 80-90 years later.

Its a fool's errand to look for repetitive patterns in history, but it certainly isn't unreasonable to expect that similar conditions produce similar results.