in election and polls while it is actually the right which is more successful than ever. Enemy building is much more than simply identifying individuals to direct one’s populist rhetoric at on the grounds of their economic and political power or their use as elite fetishes. Neither is a matter of political oppo­sition alone. The point is that the illiberal mechanism also targets minorities and attempts to break society up into its identity components. The use and abuse of hom­ophobic, anti-immigrant and abortion rights propaganda and attacks on an increasingly wide spectrum of rights, more generally, exemplifies this process. The rhetorical apparatus far-right groups share is used as a mechanism by which to hijack the frustrations of the electorate, and more generally, of society as a whole, against the serried ranks of artificially constructed targets: the Finkelstein formula taken to the extreme. Enemy building 7