Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.”
Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in parliamentary elections this weekend.
Inspired by other populist right-wing groups that have sprung up in recent years, Sanseito bagged 14 seats in Japan’s upper house, according to public broadcaster NHK – a dramatic increase from the single seat it had occupied previously.
Traditional parties are consistently failing their nations all over the world.
The only ones offering any kind of hope for the future are snake-oil salesmen like this.
Snake oil salesmen backed by the most criminally corrupt oligarchs, corporations, and lobbyists; the same people who corrupted politics and caused it to fail their nations are now selling the snake oil cure to their snake oil disease.
Yeah, well, when people consistently elect the same morons and life gets steadily worse, no one should be surprised when people stop voting for the do-nothing party.