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But populists believe that such chaos does not emerge by itself.
Populists know how to win elections, but their conception of democracy extends no further.
On the contrary, populists view minority rights, separation of government powers, and independent media – all staples of liberalism – as an attack on majority rule, and therefore on democracy itself.
Populists have benefited from disseminating fake news, slandering their opponents, and promising miracles that mainstream media treat as normal campaign claims.
Populists are both unseemly and ascendant.
By appealing to nationalist sentiment, populists have gained support everywhere, regardless of the economic system or situation, because it is being fueled externally, namely by the influx of migrants and refugees.
Either populism’s opponents drastically change their rhetoric regarding migrants and refugees, or the populists will continue to rule.
Such calculations are ugly – and, yes, corrosive of liberal values – but the populists, as we have seen, are capable of far nastier tradeoffs.
Modern European populists don’t wear black shirts, or indulge in street violence.
The influence of these slick new populists, waging their war on Islam, goes well beyond their countries’ borders.
The idea of a Tea Party candidate becoming US president is alarming, to be sure, but European populists could only be part of coalition governments.
That is why the Danish model is probably the worst solution, for it requires no governing ability from the populists.
Indeed, fearful of the populists’ power, in or out of government, the response from mainstream conservatives – and even some social democrats – to their illiberal views has already been inexcusably soft.
The comfortable role of criticizing the government fell into the hands of leftist populists, for a change.
But, beyond the raucous style common to populists, what do these movements share?
This means that left-wing populists are inevitably compelled to compete with right-wing populists for the support of exactly the same groups that turned to fascism between the wars: young unemployed males, the “small man” who feels threatened by the “oligarchy” of bankers, global supply chains, corrupt politicians, remote European Union bureaucrats, and “fat cats” of all kinds.
Today’s populists, of whatever political stripe, increasingly target not just the same potential supporters, but the enemies as well.
In fact, the likelihood is that such reforms will sink all boats, giving the populists their chance.
A look at Venezuela or Nicaragua reminds us that the demagogues and the populists are not yet gone.
Populists, in Latin America and elsewhere, are always hedgehogs.
Populists everywhere are no doubt celebrating the outcome as another clear rebuke to self-interested elites who have “rigged” their governments against the people.
But if there really is a “democracy deficit,” as populists claim, the increased use of referendums is no cure for it.
Left-wing populists, like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, Bernie Sanders in the US, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France, received a significant boost from social media’s ability to bypass traditional news outlets.
Right-wing populists, like Trump, Marine Le Pen in France, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, benefited in exactly the same way.
The time has come to set the world on a new path of constructive cooperation, instead of populists’ preferred path of destructive unilateralism.
Little will be genuinely free in a future crafted by these populists: "liberalism" behind barricades; "welfare" that denies the most needy; "tolerance" that allows some to be targets; the un-liberating leader-cults of "noisy little men," their nationalisms and their narrow-mindedness, their police priorities and procrustean plans for "integrating" minorities.
We must choose between a new coziness that includes demagogic populists, or a candor that defies them.
Only radicals and populists -- of which we retain too many -- can afford a devil-may-care attitude toward making the state function more efficiently.
Now, more than ever, Britain and the EU must defend and promote liberal democratic norms globally, not embrace populists’ narcissistic nationalism.
For their part, the populists can rouse the masses but fail to offer alternatives.
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