Talk:Danish People's Party

Delete?

Any reason for this not to be a few lines in the article on Denmark? Especially in its current form.--ZooGuard (talk) 15:16, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Eh, let's keep it for a little. Maybe some one will fix it up a little more. The party sounds quite authoritarian so it sounds on mission. ClothCoat (talk) 21:50, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Whether to make this part of larger article on Danish right-wing populism?

There's now two parties more marginal than the Danish People's Party: Nye Borgerlige (New Right) and Stram Kurs (Hard Line). I have strated a draft on Hard Line's founder Rasmus Paludan here [1], and am unsure whether to integrate the articles into a single one on the Danish populist right wing, or whether Paludan and/or Stram Kurs ought to have standalone articles. --CogitoNotStirred (via telepathy) 13:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

@CogitoNotStirred Sorry, didn’t see your question at the time. Yes, they belong in different articles, as they represent (at least in my eyes) three different strands of right wing populism:

• The Danish People’s Party wants to be a broad, well, people’s party, and at the fulcrum of Danish politics. This means shedding some of the “protest party” language and attitudes that characterise the other two, truly fringe, parties. In that sense, they are like well-established right wing populist elsewhere (e.g. Fremskrittspartiet in Norway, and Front National in France and probably the Sweden Democrats, the latter seemingly deliberately modelling themselves on the Danish People’s Party).
• Rasmus Paludan’s Stram Kurs is a “classic” alt-right outfit, down to its reliance on memes and use of the “it was just a joke” defence when they go to far in their publicity stunts. Not to mention that Paludan’s claim to fame is his YouTube videos that themselves are classic alt-right fare.
• By contrast, it seems to me that Nye Borgerlige is more of an identitarian crowd, replete with upperclass, intellectual imagery and rhetoric to veil their extreme wingnuttery (they probably benefitted from Paludan acting as a sort of lightning conductor for criticism at the 2019 election, allowing Nye Borgerlige to slip under the radar with their superficial air of respectability, unlike the obvious trolling of Paludan’s chaotic posse).

Hence why I suggest separate articles for each party. ScepticWombat (talk) 06:58, 24 February 2020 (UTC)