For more than a decade, global politics have been rocked by the rise of right-wing nationalist governments. Similar to Donald Trump’s rise in the United States, countries like India, Hungary, Brazil, and Italy have seen the emergence of far-right governments that have channeled popular anger into support for nativist and anti-immigrant platforms.

It turns out we’re largely to blame for it.

Far-right groups march at a 2021 rally in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Today on Lever Time, Arjun Singh sits down with Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp to discuss his new book The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept The World, in which Beauchamp traces the roots of modern right-wing regimes to an antidemocratic tradition that began in the United States. 

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