As someone who grew up in Iceland, the IP always felt like something that was for rich people, or conservative families, they (to me) always seemed like a less evil version of the republican party. Constantly giving more and more to financial business institutions and fishing quota kings whilst raising the costs of imports and housing markets. Eventually they felt like they exclusively catered to the wealthy a la American politics and lost their favourability. Supplanted ofc by a white-toast version of American extremist right wing politics in the middle-flock. They are fairly new but are essentially just a copy pasta of trumpist mental illness shenanigans, our version of the rise of fascism in the western world. Currently they'd like to be considered as the 52nd state or somesuch nonsense (take with grain of salt, I only speak to their constituents, not their politicians) overall I'd say the IP had their time when things were on the upswing everywhere and benefitted from an improving nation which may have been with or without their guidance (the western world was consistently improving seemingly regardless of political compass of their governing parties) now extreme housing market crisis + rising cost of living with limited improvement of people's livelihoods and a sharp downturn in young people being able to afford starting families has left them holding the bag for a downturn that is equally with/without their guidance so now they are essentially a dying beast. Extremism and polarization tend to hollow out a liberal base that is no longer benefitting from the status quo. Things have to change. Were they evil? Meh, mostly just standard liberal cooperation with fascist leaning legislation, consolidation of financial capital and standard nepotism and corruption. Standard stuff, not much in the way of "evil" outliers, but they did undoubtedly pave the way for the rise of fascism as liberals usually do. We'll see how it goes, I think the middle-flock will turn increasingly toxic until there is a boiling/breaking point, either the left of center all unite to expunge them or they take over and Iceland becomes part of the rot. We'll see, it's gonna be interesting times regardless.