How European elites set up Greece for a fascist takeover

They've systematically destroyed every party but the extreme right

Greek leaders created the perfect storm.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Yannis Kolesidis)

Remember PASOK?

Right after the financial crisis, Greece's center-left party was in firm control of the country, having won the 2009 elections with 38 percent of the vote. But a few years later, PASOK was all but destroyed, falling to a mere 5 percent of the vote in 2015. The reason was eurozone elites' favorite policy, austerity, which pushed Greek unemployment up past 20 percent for over four years and counting. As Herbert Hoover could tell you, it's not so great for one's political fortunes to be in command of government during a full-blown depression.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.