The populist right wins elections.
It’s been the center left establishment parties that have been the most authoritarian, the most subversive of democratic norms, and have attempted the most aggressive forms of censorship.
France, the Yookay, Germany, Canada, the US: neoliberal establishment parties in all these countries have tried to censor, anathematize, and even criminalize normal discourse across a range of legitimate political issues.
Instead of compromising and making policy changes to head the populists off the establishment has chosen to compensate for worsening delegitimization and unpopularity by coercion, subverting liberal norms, and placing a thumb on the scale using state power.
Nightmare Vision makes a good point that international leftism believes the world is experiencing a rise in Fascism while the hard Right has to democratically win a dozen elections and engages in Democracy more than their opponents do