Danish People's Party founded in 1995 as a breakaway from the unruly anarcho-libertarian and xenophobic Progress Party (among the most ironically named parties ever) DPP has transformed itself into one of the most successful right wing populist parties in Europe. Expected to decline after party creator and brilliant communicator Pia Kjærgård stepped down as leader, but her replacement academic Kristian Thulesen Dahl has actually moved it's support to an even higher level. Thulesen Dahl can promise the moon and all criticism evaporates into thin air. He has never held a regular job, but manages to be seen as the champion of ordinary hardworking people. After a formidable Euro-election the party is still around 20% in the polls come Christmas time and has even been the biggest party in a couple of them. Thin on the ground but with a top notch communication team around press manager Søren Søndergård and with Teflon Thulesen and a couple of reliable veteran MPs in charge. They have managed to move to the center on socioeconomic issues and actually go left of SD on some issues, but the party has large internal fault lines between genuine right wingers and former SDs, which the party leadership may not be able to bridge for ever. The preferred option for pensioners and invalides the party is seen as a stalwart of public welfare, but helped cut the period for receiving unemployment benefits in half prior to the last election. Euroscepticism is fast becoming as important a trademark as opposition to immigration. Harbours a small and vicious SoCon wing, which the rest of the party ignores so far, but may need to quell if they become too much of a liability. Staunchly pro-Zionist and with ties back to the so called right wing-complex of the Danish resistance movement.
Others:
Christian Democrats founded in the 70s as a protest against free porn and legal abortion (legalized by a Conservative Minster of Justice..). Forever torn between its core supporters from pietistic Inner Mission in the "Bible Belt" in Western Jutland (even in the heart of this so called Bible Belt only 5-7% are fundis) and liberal Christian greenies in the Big Smoke.
Three Questions:
(1) Insofar as you can actually tell, does their Zionism come from a sort of philo-Semitism, in the way, say, that many Christians (especially evangelicals) are Zionist, or is it more of a "Muslims don't like Jews and hate Israel so we should be pro-Israel because we don't like Muslims" sort of thing?
(2) What is this "right wing-complex of the Danish resistance movement" you speak of?
(3) I'm just curious: do you mean that they're fundamentalists just in the colloquial sense--i.e. very conservative Christians--or in the technical sense that you often see in the US and Canada. By that I mean, actual self-identifying fundamentalist Christians, generally Dispensationalist, believing in biblical inerrancy, etc.
