Authorities have attributed about 173 anti-refugee incidents in the first half of the year to far-right sentiment, including eight cases of arson.
The two main UK public fronts for far-right sentiment, the British National party and the street-based, anti-Islam English Defence League, are both in apparent decline.
With minority voters increasing as far-Right sentiment burgeons and economic misery deepens, Europe risks electoral and social earthquakes that no party dares ignore.
The United States Embassy in Athens on Friday warned of the risk of violent attacks against visitors "perceived to be foreign migrants" after a rise in racially motivated assaults in Greece, where far-right sentiment is on the rise.
Rotherham council's failure to tackle child sexual exploitation has fuelled far-right sentiment and led to an increase in Islamophobia in the town, the government inspector who wrote a damning report into the abuse has said.
The first was Howard's reaction to the first stirrings of far-right sentiment.
In the recent election campaign, not only did the FPO increase in popularity as it railed against immigration and the so-called "Islamization" of Austria, but other parties also changed their own policies in attempts to appease far-right sentiment.
Scott Radnitz, director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington, agreed that Trump's win would boost far-right sentiment but said it was unlikely to provide any lasting momentum.
In Britain, he fanned far-right sentiment with comments linking immigration to crime and terrorism, and undercut Prime Minister Theresa May's fragile position on Brexit before decrying the comments attributed to him as "fake news".
His speech centered on economic issues, somewhat of a departure for Santorum, who has built support by appealing to far-right sentiment on social issues and positioning himself as the more conservative alternative to Romney on everything from abortion rights to women in the military.
