Other similar GOP parties that became fascist include the UCP in Alberta, National Rally (RN) in France, AfD in Germany, Vox in Spain, Fidesz in Hungary, and most importantly the BJP in India. All of those parties have won numerous elections since the 2008 crisis, which is when the GOP became the party of big lies and the middle class began disappearing. The latter point about Canada and the European Union investing 50% of their GDP on health and social services is not the case anymore. Both areas began implementing austerity measures in the mid-1990s, and the European Union began experiencing a sovereign debt crisis in the early 2010s due in part to overinvestment of health and social services. It turns out overinvesting in both services is the same problem as investing too little in such services. In order to address the sovereign debt crisis, European governments began implementing austerity measures at a much harsher rate than America once did. These austerity measures caused residents of some European countries (particularly Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ukraine) to experience an increase in poverty. The austerity-poverty-inflation-fascism has been going on in most of the developed world since Richard Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. It was both the backlash from the civil rights era gains of the 1960s and the high inflation during the latter half of the 1970s that caused Ronald Reagan to be elected in 1980. This is why this article is a little bit inaccurate.