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They easily become prey to populists in elections, or even take up arms.
No. (Applause) Populists are no easy target for satire because you try to nail them down one day, and the next day, they outdo you.
Since then, populists – particularly the governing Five Star Movement/League coalition in Italy – have seized on the painful legacy of austerity for their own political gain.
Moreover, political firebrands, populists, and radicals, from Italy’s Beppe Grillo to American Tea Party members, use social media and the blogosphere to appeal directly to potential supporters.
Despite their differences, these groups have one thing in common: a deep hostility toward international structures and interconnectedness (though, of course, a murderous group like ISIS is in a different category from, say, European populists).
Europe’s New Political Battle LinesPARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron has framed the European Parliament election in May 2019 as a battle not between the traditional right and left, but between populists and pro-European progressives like himself.
Such a proposal will undoubtedly rile nationalist populists, who will oppose the deployment of a European force, even as they rail against migration.
As these examples indicate, populists are resurgent across Europe – even in unlikely places like Sweden and the Netherlands.
Today’s populists, however, demand simple – indeed, simplistic – answers outside the scope of mainstream consensus.
Of course, populists’ halcyon past is a dreamland.
Populists must be confronted head-on.
If we run away from populists, or try to copy their tactics and arguments, we will further undermine the social contract underpinning Western democracies.
Under these conditions, one of the populists’ strongest arguments is simply to point out that all the warnings by the globalist elite, Davos cosmopolitans, neoliberals, and one-percenters about the dangers of populist economics were baloney.
More to the point, today’s populists have benefited from a general recovery that began before they arrived on the scene.
His organization, called “The Movement” and based in Brussels, aims to unite Europe’s right-wing populists and take down the European Union in its current form.
But however unpleasant anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies may be, the main target of the populists’ ire remains the sinister globalist elite, represented by George Soros and other liberals whom they accuse of promoting human rights, compassion for refugees, and religious tolerance to further their own interests.
But the populists’ goal is not to destroy elitism; it is to replace the old elites.
But this doesn’t make him an internationalist, any more than jamborees of European right-wing populists make for a coherent international movement.
Whether the populists can do more than that – collectively bring down the EU and reorder the Western world – is hard to tell.
Rather than standing exclusively with the old elites or the new populists, Macron has promised to rally broad political support under the banner of European reform.
As European technocrats have pushed for covert integration to resolve the euro and refugee crises, the populists have struck back even harder.
The UK’s Brexit negotiations have already become a battleground between technocrats and populists, with each side vying for an outcome that will support its narrative.
True, populists’ growing strength is threatening traditional center-right and center-left parties and making it very difficult for EU-level governance, in its current form, to function.
Right-wing populists, as nationalist and anti-European as they may be, also seem eager to support one another at the European level, taking advantage of their common platforms on most issues, particularly immigration, cultural identity, and trade.
Populists Are Sometimes RightDeveloping countries are often advised (or instructed) to undertake reforms recommended by "experts" who are called "technocrats" and are often backed by the IMF.
Perhaps the populists are popular because they know something that the technocrats don't.
LONDON – The politics of economic anxiety has now driven the electorates of the United Kingdom and the United States into the hands of populists.
In Sweden, just as in similarly liberal Holland and Denmark, right-wing populists have profited from liberals’ failure to stand up for their values.
Thus, the lack of “muscular liberalism” in one of the world’s most liberal countries has paved the way for both Islamists and right-wing populists.
When national identity is all there is, right-wing populists can win support by defending it against “foreign” Europe.
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