From "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
The Tea Party pretty much control the Republican party now and that's largely due to racism, so the extreme right-wing isn't doing too badly.
In Australia, Paulin Hanson's statement below has more than a bit of truth in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Nation_%28Australia%29 In the prologue to her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed, Hanson cites the Howard government's adoption of her policies as an attempt to win back One Nation voters to the Liberal and National parties, stating "the very same policies I advocated back then ... are being advocated today by the federal government".
From the same page:
Believing the other parties to be out of touch with mainstream Australia, One Nation ran on a broadly populist and protectionist platform. It promised to drastically reduce immigration and to abolish "divisive and discriminatory policies ... attached to Aboriginal and multicultural affairs." Condemning multiculturalism as a "threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values", One Nation rallied against government immigration and multicultural policies which, it argued, were leading to "the Asianisation of Australia." Brandis and Morrison act pretty much in the same spirit, while the fear of "Asianisation" was partially replaced by fear about "Islamisation" over the last years. Regards Peter