It's because of the austerity measures that were implemented in response to financial crises that caused working classes to become poorer, which increased the poverty rate. The examples listed are as follows: most Canadian provinces implementing austerity meaures beginning in the early 1990s despite requests from the central government not to do so, and many European governments implementing austerity measures in response to the European sovereign debt crisis of the early 2010s. Both measures that were implemented caused health and social services to be cut to levels similar to what so many American states did beginning with Clinton's presidency, which meant that fascist governments began to be elected in those areas in the late 2010s. The austerity-poverty-fascism cycle is still in effect to this day. You see this happening with the UCP in Alberta, the Fidesz party in Hungary, and recently the VOX party in Spain.