Internal conflict is dividing the conservative right

"Internal conflict is dividing the conservative right"

"Mathias Wåg on the ground and populismens hangover"

"This is a kulturartikel which is a part of Aftonbladet's opinionsjournalistik."

"A new talmansrunda is a stub. The parties ' positions seem frozen and the logic of blocs has gone into deadlock. So it seems at the big political level, if one considers the policy from a makroplan. "

"But you should understand how the parties begin to move, you have to go down to the micro level and see what is happening in its undergrowth, and, in particular, consider the environments that find themselves between the parties. It is not in the established media, these slippage and movement of the show itself, but in the alternative media who are jerks in the party grassroots. This is where the map has begun to be redrawn. Where frustrations boil and the changes are turbulent right now, in the small."

"In a community hall on Södermalm meet each month an informal middagssällskap, only referred to as the Club or Society. Here meet together over a plate of shared cooked food, listen to speakers and discuss the development of society. They are not the only one of its kind, there are plenty of social venues where politicians, opinion-formers and cultural professionals talk informally. "

"The interesting thing about this venue is that it represents an environment that is politically situated between The sweden democrats, the Moderates and the Christian democrats. The thirties of visitors come from bourgeois ledarredaktioner, writers on alternative mediesajter as The good society and Ledarsidorna, some are active in the party's Civic collection. "

"the Staff has for several years been one of several gathering places for parts of the conservative right to vent their frustration against the red-green government. But after the elections the growing frustration. Hopes that Sweden would follow the right-wing populist wave in the US and parts of Europe were not realised. Maybe it needed a different strategy?"

"We can call them kulturhögern. It is an environment that has grown up over the last four-five years in the borderland between The sweden democrats and the bourgeois parties. Kulturhöger, for they work by the motto from Andrew Breitbart, the founder of the alternative online magazine Breitbart, who became influential during the american presidential election, that ”politics is downstream of culture”. "

"you Should change the policy to first win the kulturkriget, the battle of ideas and values. In the united states was called this right-wing populist movement, which in addition to Breitbart and Steve Bannon included a collection of free högertänkare, for ”intellectual dark web” or ”alt-lite”. This is to distinguish them from the white etnonationalistiska collectively, alt-right, alternativhögern."

"Where the alt-right wants to radicalize the högerpopulismen, to the alt light rather reshape the bourgeoisie. The one it seeks to shift the policy limits, the other to penetrate the right-wing ushered a major period of and draw with them in a more conservative direction."

"Before the 2014 elections was The sole opposition party, on the right, after eight years of bourgeois rule. The party had the support of his own sprawling grassroots movement in social media and the comments field, ”Sverigevännerna”, regarding the so-called alternativmedian. Sites When Free times, New times, and News today could compete with the more established media channels in the dissemination, and mobilized voters to The sweden democrats. The party had their own motoffentlighet."

"All this changed during the red-green government. The sweden democrats no longer had to alternativmedians support, which rather had become an obstacle to continue to grow as a party. They did end up with their grassroots. The discussion on migration was now one of the main issues in the Swedish political debate, and was reported repeatedly in the media. Now in addition, SD is not alone as the opposition party on the right, but shared the position with the Alliance."

"During the Decemberöverenskommelsen was this relationship at its tip, through the knowledge that the Alliance and SD together would be larger than the red-green block. This fact angered the conservative grassroots and created a demand for new alternative news channel in march. Now divided alternativmedian in two. "

"A wing of radicalised, and stood to the right of the sweden democrats and another seeking inward of the bourgeoisie. The division corresponding to the american between an alt-right and alt-light, a etnonationalistisk nyfascistisk and a right-wing populist kulturkampsinriktad sphere, with The sweden democrats placed in the middle between them."

"Two new parties were formed, one was on each side. Alternativhögern and vitmaktmiljön gathered in the Alternative for Sweden. At the same time formed the Civic collection in the space between the SD and the Conservatives. If the Workers (now Samhällsnytt), New times, and Free times oriented itself towards the Options for Sweden, approached the News today, rather the Civic collection."

"The former social democrat Johan Westerholm blog, Ledarsidorna, which he started in Alliansåren to examine the bourgeois ledarsidorna, has now made a political turn and became all the more invandringskritisk. Author Ann Heberlein and Katerina Janouch made the same political journey and signed up to the sites. News today and Ledarsidorna parts nowadays, the same prenumerantsystem, which is administered by the Civic federation leader's company. Site The good society and the media campaign Quarter came to place itself in the same furrow, from the bourgeois press. "

"It is in this conservative motoffentlighet as the pressure from below for a change in the moderate party and the Christian democrats created, and SD's problems, triangulated. The conservative turnaround in the parts of the Alliance, of course, so must these medieforum be taken into account."

"But when the major parties start to move shrinks even space between them. When M and KD are changed, creating the pressure and tension in the motoffentligheten from the bottom up."

"to return to the common middagsträffarna. During one of these in October brought an idea. If party politics seemed locked for a long while in front of the boat, what options remained? The company brainstormed plans on a project to create etnonationalistiska municipalities, svenskkulturella gated communities and ethnic liberated zones. Wild pojkrumsdrömmar of a radikaliserad middle class, who had never progressed further than the drawing board. "

"But the plans will leak out. First, publish The good society is a positive article about the project. Then outas the plans of Johan Westerholm Ledarsidorna, despite the fact that several of his own writers, was included in the diskussionsklubben. Ann Heberlein and her husband, Erik van der Heeg, who themselves visited the dinners, leaving the news site to protest. Journalist Jens Ganman responded by pointing out how Westerholm himself participated in similar discussions at internal seminars of the SD. "

"Chang Frick, who runs alternativmediesajten News today, tied up quickly Heberlein and van der Heeg as the chronicler, in his stable, where Katerina Janouch is already included. Janouch called for demonstrations during the winter against the UN flyktingavtal, to collect the whole of the extreme right, including neo-fascist organisations. The radicalization of the Janouchs rhetoric and social intercourse the party's Civic collection – the party she stood for in the elections – to take distance from her."

"in 2016 has been called högerpopulismens 1968. Högerpopulismen swept over the world, in flyktingkrisens aftermath, may be exceeded in the united states and Europe. There were hopes that Trumpvågen would come here, go all the way up to our election campaign in 2018. Now it was högerpopulismens tour. Instead, the conservative right's own 1968 perhaps now reached their 70s, with the same form of radikaliseringar, sektstrider and positionings that bokstavsvänstern then went through."