It's an internet circlejerk. Always assume the dumber option.
That's probably always true.
That being said--
At any rate, feels like a slam dunk. The right will come to power, get haplessly hamstrung by competing interests like Meloni was, fail to accomplish anything, and then get voted out in short order.
It will take time and preparation, plus a little luck, to make Europe sane again. At present, all they have are Putin's stooges. Not one of them has institutional power with the media, the bureaucracy, or Big Business. They're more or less doomed to be the controlled opposition.
--you don't actually appear very well-informed on European politics, either.
Or rather, I'm left with the impression that your own views colour your perception. To start with: your cited example goes off the rails immediately, since Meloni has been in power for a while, and her party just came out on top in the EU election, too. Evidently, "
the right fails and then loses in short order" cannot then be true across the board.
It has some merit in France, where all of established politics has been geared towads keeping FN (now RN) out of power for decades. They're losing that battle, but the insititutions are primed to undermine Le Pen if she ever gains a majority. (The same is true, to an even greater degree, with the Flemish nationalist VB in Belgium.)
In most European countries, however, the populist right is generally making gains, and when actually in power as part of a coalition, typically books moderate successes. Most votes like what they do, and want more of it. That's broadly speaking, of course, because this "movement" is disparate and has many national iterations that diverge starkly on certain matters. Dismissing it as "Putin's stooges" is such a low-level frame that discussing it seriously isn't even merited. Suffice to say: the current populism has been growing for decades, and would be there with or without Putin.
The movement is ascendant because for decades, politicians have been doing... well, what you more-or-less seem to want. And it has caused problems (as everything does, one way or another). Those problems have been unaddressed, in no small part because the established parties have wrongly dismissed the discontented voters as being "stooges" or "not sane". The resulting line of thought is that since the populist opposition is inherently "bad" and illegitimate, their grievances must also be thus. And the result of
that is that the grievances are ignored. That the problems are left to fester.
This is why the populists have been booking successes, not just in Europe, but across the West. The problems are real. And they have been ignored. As long as that remains the case, the populists will continue to achieve successes. The solution to this will probably not be what you consider to be "making Europe sane again".