From the ideologues and practitioners of Hindutva to the French Front National, a variety of authoritarian voices demand the restoration of community against formalized society and local traditions against the stranger. They call for strong states enforcing law and order. They defend traditional family models against individualism and gender pluralism. They claim to represent some dispossessed, victimized, humiliated and pure constituency. Some of their opponents denounce them as “fascists”. What happened? Where do they come from? Why are they successful today?