Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is performed intersectionally in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity and ‘race’, and sexuality. For this purpose, we examine empirical material collected from the party newspapers of the Finns Party and the Sweden Democrats, because their content most closely reflects the ideological tenets of these parties. The chosen timeline stretches from 2007 until 2014 and entails the qualitative close reading of 16 issues of each newspaper. We evidence the dynamic between the intersectional analysis that fleshes out the reproduction of categories of difference, and the comparative analysis with its interest in temporal change and the resulting convergence between the two parties’ ideologies. We conclude that, although the Finns Party previously had a more pronounced anti-elitist rhetoric and resorted to class-based antagonism as a means to garner electoral support, it subsequently moved closer to the anti-immigration agenda around issues of protecting national identity and the welfare state that has characterised the political platform of the Sweden Democrats over the past decade. This temporal awareness allowed us to document the Sweden Democrats’ ideological consistency over the examined timeframe, emphasising the party’s quest to rebuild the (Swedish) ‘people’s home’ and to exclude the racialised Muslim ‘other’.

芬兰和瑞典享有北欧福利国家的理想，并以性别平等为中心宗旨。在这两个国家中，右翼民粹主义政党在主流政治中都占有重要地位。尽管目前的政治议程相似，但这些政党的政治历史不同，表达反移民请求的方式也不同。在这项比较研究中，我们研究了如何在性别，社会阶层，种族和“种族”以及性方面相互交叉地区分“我们”和“其他”。为此，我们检查从芬兰党和瑞典民主党的党报中收集的经验材料，因为它们的内容最能反映这些政党的思想宗旨。选择的时间范围从2007年持续到2014年，需要定性地仔细阅读每份报纸的16期。我们证明了促成差异类别再现的交叉分析与比较分析之间的动态关系，这种比较分析对时间变化感兴趣，并且引起了两党意识形态的融合。我们得出的结论是，尽管芬兰人党以前有更明显的反精英言论，并诉诸基于阶级的对抗作为获得选举支持的一种手段，但随后它在保护民族身份和公民身份保护等问题上走近了反移民议程。过去十年中，瑞典民主党的政治平台一直是一个福利国家。