The far right is often seen to thrive in times of crisis. The unfolding of the Great Recession, the migration crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic provide an unprecedented opportunity to delve into far-right collective actors’ relationship with ‘crisis’. With our study, we are interested to explore whether far-right mobilisation in the protest arena is indeed linked to short-term periods of crisis or part of a broader, longer-term process of societal transformation from the ground up. We deploy a new dataset on far-right protest events – part of the Far-Right Protest Observatory (FARPO) – covering 10 European countries and the period 2008-2021 (N=4,440) to elicit and characterise these collective actors’ mobilisation at the non-institutional level. Although nativist collective actors have reacted to periods of crisis, the rate, size, and synergies of far-right protest mobilisation have been steadily on the rise, its repertoire of action has been overwhelmingly conventional, and its claim-making dominated by nativist issues. Instead of simply adapting to crisis, we contend that the far right prompted a broader process of transformation and is increasing its penetration of civil society.