The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump Marine Le Pen Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban is captivating and mobilizing large numbers of people. In an increasing number of countries the extreme right has already captured the government or is on the threshold of power. While this swift turn of events has shocked or surprised many in the North the extreme rights seizure of power is not an uncommon event in the South. In Counter