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Since the economic collapse of 2008-2009, globalism and its supporting economic rules and norms have been challenged not just by US President Donald Trump, but by populists entering the European mainstream.
The tactical alliance between the Kremlin and the populists pumps up the dream of an ideological union, stretching “from Lisbon to Vladivostok,” based not on Western but on “Eurasian” values.
Populists can no longer complain that the European Central Bank is taxing German savers.
As a result, austerity reigns, and dissent is left to populists like France’s Marine Le Pen or Italy’s Beppe Grillo – whose economic proposals seem even less likely to be effective.
Indeed, given populism’s importance as a political phenomenon, that view, along with two others – that populism is somehow a call for direct democracy, and that populists can only protest, but never govern – needs to be challenged.
While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.
Moreover, impugning populists’ intelligence and seriousness only plays into their hands: See how the arrogant, entrenched elites, they will counter, dismiss the common sense of the people.
America’s Tea Party populists often imagine an unholy alliance of left-liberal, bi-coastal elites and the African-American underclass (an alliance that in their eyes is embodied in President Barack Obama).
Rather, what is distinctive about populists in power is that they attend only to their clientele (the rest of the population is utterly undeserving) and ride roughshod over checks and balances.
Populists can live with representative democracy; what they cannot accept is political pluralism and the notion of legitimate opposition.
Just as technocrats assume that there is only one right solution to every policy challenge – hence political debate is not necessary – so, for populists, the people have one, and only one, uncorrupted will.
Not only are they empowering populists; they are becoming more and more like them.
To escape their current rut, European leaders must follow Renzi’s example, using the populists’ platforms – from social networks to local elections – to regain popular support for a project that is critical for European countries’ collective future.
Lastly, the purely technocratic approach is a recipe for pushing older voters into the arms of populists.
To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of representative government.
If they do not act fast to re-establish themselves as credible and effective representatives of voters’ interests, they risk fading into the political background, allowing irresponsible populists gradually to take center stage.
The Tides of Latin American PopulismMEXICO CITY – Demagogues and populists like US presidential candidate Donald Trump and French National Front leader Marine Le Pen are setting Western politics alight.
In such a setting, influence becomes the sole domain of the populists, because only they can effect change – and only through destruction.
This is why populists seem credible even when they lie.
How is the EU to survive the loss of a major member state at a time when it already must deal with ascendant populists, economic malaise, a refugee crisis, and terrorism?
Once oil and soybean prices collapsed, according to this view, no anti-democratic antics short of suspending elections (which was intensely rumored in Venezuela) could save the populists from defeat.
That is something that everyone, from the emerging populists to the hardened capitalists, should be able to agree on.
Populists dramatise the short-term costs of enlargement, while ignoring the long-term benefits.
Neither America nor Europe should abandon their policies to the populists’ dangerous virtual reality.
Populists are having a field day.
By contrast, “destructive” populists consciously distort what is known and have no qualms fabricating what isn’t.
In Europe, it is predominantly nationalists and nativist populists that have risen to prominence, with the left advancing only in a few places such as Greece and Spain.
Absent such a response again, the field will be left wide open for populists and far-right groups, who will lead the world – as they always have – to deeper division and more frequent conflict.
If the EU mission is to compete successfully against Lebanon’s Islamists and populists, it must start thinking seriously about a social agenda that appeals to the poor.
That does not seem to be the way things are moving now in Europe, if we look at France’s recent election scare, not to mention Finland and Poland, where right-wing populists have now come to power.
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