Europe

For sure, and we kind of see this with Russia right now. It's obvious that the economic downturn in the west is a direct result of the economic war with Russia, but it's taboo to actually say this out loud. So, we get all these weird excuses for why the economy is all of a sudden in a nose dive, or outright denials that there are problems even. Like in Canada, we've been pretending that we're not in a recession for the past year, and now they're calling it a "soft recession".

So, it is likely that a period of right wing idiocy will be required to convince people that right wingers don't have any better solutions than the libs.