They seem to be on the rise all over Europe. There was a BNP member arrested in Britain last year for making bombs - apparently he was preparing for a civil war.

I'm sure there's a thread somewhere in the archives about it.
I'm betting America will have the same demons to wrestle with soon, now they have a black president.
So far, all I've seen is a bunch of right-wing commentators crying their eyes out that Obama got elected, and a lot of bitching over at stormfront, and a couple of bullshit court cases challenging Obama's eligibility as president.
Because of our winner-takes-all electoral system, Americans tend to vote more for whoever they think is less likely to fuck up the country any more than it already is, and less about someone who will actually represent them.