The Spanish elections last week did not unfold as many predicted. The coalition of the centre-right People’s party and the far-right Vox failed in its bid for power, largely because the Vox vote plummeted, while the incumbent prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and his social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers party (PSOE), fared better than expected. Do the Spanish results tell us something more profound about European politics and the fate of the far right? Over the past year, the far right has seemed to be on the march across Europe. Last October, Giorgia Meloni became Italy’s prime minister after her Brothers...