At the United Nations General Assembly in late September, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez placed far-right movements before the world as something more than a political inconvenience — naming them, in his words, selfish, ignorant, and cruel forces threatening the foundations of shared humanity. His choice of that particular stage was itself a statement: that what is rising in individual nations has consequences for all nations. Whether the world body will hear his warning as a call to collective action or as one leader's political positioning remains the deeper question his speech has lef