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And, as recent research indicates, a decline in welfare correlates more strongly with political support for populists than its absolute level.
In fact, such sanctions can even serve to strengthen public support for the populists.
But while measures encouraging economic convergence have been successful in many jurisdictions, they have failed in others, such as southern Italy, precisely because of the institutional weakness and widespread corruption that the populists decry.
During the controversy surrounding the Cypriot banking sector's collapse in 2013, Tsipras referred to EU leaders as “gangsters" – the same sort of rhetoric used by far-right European populists like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders.
Modern populism – American politicians running, or pretending to run, “against Washington,” or French populists speaking for “deep France” – is invariably hostile to capital cities.
Brussels, the capital of the European Union, stands for everything populists, whether left or right, hate.
And Muslim immigrants live in Amsterdam, London, or Marseilles, not in the kind of small towns where right-wing populists find most of their support.
Populists are demagogues who promise the unaffordable; they are willing to run deficits and incur debts that our grandchildren will have to repay.
Populists pander.
More ominously for the health of the democracies of the West, other populists are following Trump’s example.
Reformers can win elections if they are better at public communication than the populists.
This might explain some right-wing populists’ animus against monarchy.
Like the new wave of populists worldwide, Wilders promises to take his country back for his followers, to stop immigration (especially of Muslims), and to make the Netherlands Dutch again, whatever that means.
Unfortunately, the political environment in Central and Eastern Europe is ideal for populists who refuse to participate constructively in the European project.
Many emerging-market countries are dealing with populists of their own, or in the case of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey, with populists who have already turned into autocrats.
In theory, civil disobedience should be an effective weapon against populists.
Populists derive their appeal from one or the other of these cleavages.
Right-wing populists such as Trump engage in identity politics.
Left-wing populists such as Bernie Sanders emphasize the gulf between the rich and the poor.
Unlike mainstream political elites, populists can easily point to the culprits responsible for the masses’ ills.
The appeal of populists is that they give voice to the anger of the excluded.
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The strength of this political tendency became fully apparent in May 2014, when anti-European populists performed well in the European Parliament election.
Yet, welfare state reform is not a priority of right-wing populists.
But Hungarian and Polish opposition leaders warn that suspending EU funds could backfire and bolster public support for anti-EU populists, who will be more than happy to play the victim.
Against this backdrop, Macron and Verhofstadt are each trying to assert their presence by taking a principled stand against Eastern European populists.
Macron and Verhofstadt’s aim in raising the specter of Eastern European populists is to undermine their own populists at home.
The poor will lose, because populists have no hope of restoring manufacturing jobs, despite their promises.
And massive inflows of migrants and refugees will continue, because populists have no plan to address the problem’s root causes.
For populists, it is liberal democracy that leads to chaos, which must be “put in order” by a “responsible government.”
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