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If the US election on November 8 confirms Trump’s failure to bind social conservatives and economic liberals into a winning coalition, similar disintegration is likely among European populists, too.
Long-term economic and social considerations almost inevitably collide with short-term political objectives, particularly for
populists.
This is not the result of a populist revolt; but
populists
in power certainly won’t address it.
There are two types of
populists
today: the exploitative and the enlightened.
This is as true for Trump in the US as it is for right-wing
populists
like Marine Le Pen in France, Frauke Petry in Germany, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
But not even enlightened
populists
are free from the risks of duplicity; they, too, are frequently forced to betray their voters.
Right-wing
populists
and authoritarian regimes – in Europe and elsewhere – will continue seeking to exploit the resulting global leadership vacuum.
Populists
and protectionists on the right and left will inevitably fail to deliver on their simplistic promises.
Tossing out self-serving elites will not work, if we replace them with clueless
populists
peddling “alternative facts.”
Finally, angry pessimists – often
populists
and their supporters – think economies are rigged, politicians corrupt, and outsiders dangerous.
For example, I would wager that if France had done more to challenge Germany’s opposition to Eurobonds, anti-European
populists
on both the left and the right would not have gained the political momentum that they have in recent years.
Question 3: Will the
populists
do well enough to disrupt the complex process of establishing a banking union, a prerequisite for the sustainable recovery of Europe’s financial system?
In fact, what Breivik wrote in his rambling manifesto, entitled A European Declaration of Independence, is more or less what populists, such as Geert Wilders, have been saying.
But, while there was nothing intrinsically wrong with discussing the social consequences of large-scale immigration from Muslim countries, some
populists
in Holland, Denmark, France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, and other countries, went much further.
But, in the 1840’s, mass immigration, fueled by the Irish potato famine, altered the state’s demographic balance, enabling
populists
to gain control of the legislature.
Disillusionment with politics is increasing and may even bring forth right-wing
populists
whom democratic Germany has so far been spared.
Confronting the Global Threat to DemocracyOXFORD – Across the world,
populists
are attracting votes with their promises to protect ordinary people from the harsh realities of globalization.
But Trump, Le Pen, and the other
populists
represent the antithesis of Enlightenment values.
To the applause from his fellow populists, Trump has thrown a hand grenade into that structure.
To resist the populist backlash, we Europeans should be proclaiming the EU’s virtues more loudly, without descending to the populists’ level.
While
populists
regard the rule of law as malleable or negotiable, Europe’s democrats understand that it is the essential bond holding our civilization together.
As political scientists Martin Eiermann, Yascha Mounk, and Limor Gultchin of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have shown, only in Europe’s post-communist east do
populists
routinely beat traditional parties in elections.
Each side conceives of itself as the only real representative of the nation, and treats its opponents as illegitimate alternatives, who should be disenfranchised, not merely defeated.Another major difference between Eastern and Western European
populists
is that the former can count on support not only from the working class, but also from the middle class.
Another major difference between Eastern and Western European
populists
is that the former can count on support not only from the working class, but also from the middle class.
And that means beating back the
populists
and nationalist barbarians within by supporting aggregate demand and pro-growth reforms that ensure a more resilient recovery of jobs and incomes.
And given the deepening crisis in Catalonia and the resilience of European populists, the bilateral relationship is more important than ever.
Making matters worse, the rise of far-right
populists
in key countries is undermining the security apparatus needed to counter Russian aggression.
In all of these examples, far-right
populists
are not just causing friction between national intelligence services; they are successfully politicizing the very institutions and legal instruments upon which European security depends.
Populists
promise to halt economic globalization; in reality, they can stop (or reverse) only political globalization.
So the rise of
populists
to power creates a self-reinforcing dynamic, in which nationalism becomes increasingly salient.
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