Populists
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Chinese bloggers, American Tea Party activists, British Europhobes, Egyptian Islamists, Dutch populists, Greek ultra-rightists, and Thai “red shirts” all have one thing in common: hatred of the status quo and contempt for their countries’ elites.
Today’s
populists
are different.
One thing that unites many of Trump’s followers, as well as right-wing
populists
in other countries, including Israel, is a shared grievance against Muslims and the liberal urban elites who are often accused of coddling them.
Before the post-referendum dust settles, the EU should set an ultimatum with clear and onerous principles for the UK’s exit – clarity to minimize the cost, and severity to deter
populists
in other member states from calling for exit referenda, too.
European
populists
point to the mishandling of migration issues to justify their cause.
PRINCETON – The election result in Italy, where
populists
and far-right parties topped the polls, following the twin disasters of Brexit in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s election in the United States, seems certain to harden a common liberal belief: the people brought these calamities on themselves.
Observers who claim that Europe is now split between a liberal-democratic West and an East where deeply illiberal electorates have brought
populists
to power make the same mistake of explaining all political outcomes in terms of culture.
As in the US, the imperative is not to lament people’s authoritarian tendencies, but to tackle the structural problems that have enabled
populists
to do well.
For example, not everything
populists
say about those “left behind” is wrong; nor is it always a mistake to suspect that parts of the state have been captured by special interests.
Cultural differences will not and should not disappear, but if the people themselves have learned to live with them,
populists
will not succeed in using them as political weapons.
We have had our share of wild-eyed
populists
recently.
By comparing Islam in general – not only Islamist terrorism – to fascism, as the right-wing
populists
do, and to suggest that Europe faces a threat comparable to the Nazis, is not just wrong, but dangerous.
How Imports Boost EmploymentMEXICO CITY – According to today’s populists, “good jobs” in US manufacturing have been “lost” to competition from imports and preferential trading arrangements.
Latin American
populists
have always sought quick fixes that fail to solve underlying problems.
Now that technocrats have replaced
populists
in the eurozone’s Mediterranean members, sustained fiscal austerity will get us out of trouble.
It is no coincidence that the motley alliance of ultranationalists, populists, and protectionists opposing the treaty broadly overlap with those who are now siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military adventurism in Ukraine.
European right-wing populists, including some who represent parties with a strong anti-Semitic past, now proudly proclaim their support for Israeli settlers on Palestinian land.
Right-wing politicians from the American South, together with Austrian, German, French, and Dutch populists, are accusing liberals of appeasing “Islamofascism.”
Now that some
populists
have come to power, liberals have a responsibility to hold them to account and offer an alternative vision.
Renzi’s foes include left-wing
populists
such as the Five Star Movement (Movimiento Cinque Stelle) and right-wing
populists
such as the Northern League, or Lega Nord, which fiercely attack him while blaming the EU for many of Italy’s economic and political problems.
For the past 10 years, Austria has been governed by a grand coalition of Social Democrats and Conservatives; but these two mainstream parties constantly block each other, and are united only in their opposition to right-wing
populists
such as Hofer.
This sclerotic arrangement, however, has enabled those same right-wing
populists
to present themselves as the only alternative to “the system.”
As in Italy, Austria’s right-wing
populists
have railed against the EU, and have mused about taking the country out of the Eurozone.
But this will always end in widespread frustration and discontent, giving fodder to
populists
the world over.
The worst-case scenario for Europe is a US administration that pursues policies – for example, active support for right-wing
populists
– aimed at bringing about the disintegration of the EU.
One of them will hesitantly raise his hand following a talk and ask: Don’t you worry that your arguments will be abused and serve the demagogues and
populists
you are decrying?
If Macron fails during the next five years, Le Pen will be back with a vengeance, and nativist
populists
will gain strength in Europe and elsewhere.
Even more damning for the populists’ argument is that individuals who were born and raised in the EU, not immigrants, have been largely responsible for recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
Far-right
populists
have made great political strides in Western democracies, most recently in Germany.
Contrary to populists’ claims of overreach, European institutions almost always do “too little, too late.”
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