As an American, thank you for explaining this. It's still not great because it echoes what happened here. We are also stuck in a duopoly that was slowly being cranked to the right over decades. A lot of people were initially drawn to Trump because of his ideas of "draining the swamp" and sounding anti-establishment. I think the duopoly and the sense of anti-establishment under a capitalist economy (that turned into hypercapitalism) is where fascism really dug it's claws in and when things really started to accelerate. I have hope that this will result in something better after whatever happens happens, but I'm deeply worried about my family, my friends, my self with whatever comes next. I don't want people to die and suffer but that's already happening and has been happening. I feel powerless and it's awful.
I think it's both. With enough illiteracy, enough misinformation and corrupt media, enough evil corporations, and potential election interference, and there you go - far right movements driven by lack and entitilement and hate and greed. Malignent leadership manipulating others and the system to get what they want. Combine it with cost increases because of evil corporations and their clutch on politics and climate change inaction, and resulting cost increase on foods and other products due to major climate events and instability, and that's where we're at. It sucks because with all of our knowledge, our technology, perhaps things could've been way better. But malignant greedy leadership and the worst traits of humanity have given us this outcome.
I'm not sure how corrupt the politicians are in your country, but they are here. We've had laws repealed one by one so politicians can get bought off like by oil companies, health insurance, war profiteers, housing investment companies (renting out homes to people instead of people owning), etc. That seems to be a major issue for us in why no progress was made in terms of climate change and other issues too. Although our democrats made progress on social issues, which honestly democrats won't lose much with some policies and laws for some social progress, they're still protecting corporate interests because they want their slice. I'm not sure if there's a good future for us or not, but I've been reading that getting involved in one's community and grassroots helps. Best of luck to you and yours from across the pond.