Editing Rationalism (section)

=== '''Early History''' ===
The far-right saw a gradual rise in the early 2000s, however the rationalism we think of when we hear the word today didn’t come about until the National Front won the French election in 2029. The word itself wasn’t coined until 2026 however.

'''United Rationales of America'''

Towards the end of Trump’s second term the controversies were overflowing, the main ones being his intervention in the anarchist civil wars of Panama, Venezuela and Colombia, his delayed intervention in the Second Chinese Civil War and his decision to leave NATO in order to better focus on the previous two. In retrospect, it maybe isn’t too surprising that the American Alt-right decided to split off from the Republicans to form the American Rationale, (today named the United Rationales Party of America, URPA for short), for the 2028 election. However, they did not capitalize on Republican failures, as they were rather supportive of their controversial policies. The American Rationale likely would just have just fizzled out after losing the election if it wasn’t for the fact that the global stock market crashed halfway into the Democrats’ term, which devastated their reputation too. This, combined with the fact that they were stuck fighting two gruesome wars their whole term, won the American Rationale lots of voters for the next election. By the time of the 2032 election, they had gotten 48 % of the votes, only losing because the Republicans and Democrats had formed a coalition. This enraged them who claimed coalitions was "cheating" and they followed up by starting the Second American Civil War where the Rationalists ultimately won, in part thanks to French support.

'''French State'''

After the French 2029 election, rationalism quickly began to spread like wildfire, especially after the left’s failure to prevent the European 2029 stock market crash in Germany. The national-conservative ruling party of Italy Fratelli d’Italia modeled their politics after the French and far-right parties of Poland and Spain also started taking notes. After this, most of the Old West ended up falling to rationalism as the French and American movements morphed into one. Rationalism then presided to purge the woke left into near extinction, only returning as smaller movements in the Republic of Russia and during the Second African Revolution over 30 years later.