Times are very hard in most developed countries for the old working class, who have been left behind by globalisation and that is where most of the support for right-wing extremism comes from. But there really aren't enough of them to take over the state: Trump will not win in November, the National Front will not win next year's French election, and the Brexiteers in Britain -- well, that remains to be seen.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce (Karl Marx, 1852).
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