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For right-wing populists, foreigners, immigrants, or ethnic and religious minorities serve the same purpose.
Good economic analysis can enable “constructive populists” to debate the “post-fact, fanciful populists” who seem to be on the rise, with a realistic alternative discourse – one that is transparent and based on credible expectations of economic policies and outcomes.
The populists’ enemies are members of the “global elite,” who have betrayed national values; and yet their revolt against what US President-elect Donald Trump calls “globalism” also aspires to be a global phenomenon, and actually depends on its own brand of internationalism.
But today’s populists have made a point of refusing to think collectively, or engage internationally.
But democracies fail when citizens become complacent or alienated, and when populists are allowed to exploit such sentiments.
While it is unclear if Sirisena will follow through, his threat is part of a worrying trend among populists who view the death penalty as a panacea for the drug trade.
The “passionate intensity” of the populists conveys a simple, easily grasped, and now resonant message: the elites are selfish, corrupt, and often criminal.
Taming the PopulistsMADRID – In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energized by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim that globalization lies at the root of many citizens’ problems.
The image of “untrustworthy elites” is ideal fodder for populists, who claim that globalization has given the wealthy and powerful more money and power than ever.
But the world that the populists and their constituents hope to recreate – a world of self-sufficient, egalitarian states insulated from developments around them – never existed.
If populists triumph, many important social achievements will be put at risk.
Populists can win.
Whether he intends to or not, Trump will give populists and nationalists such as Farage a boost in the coming months and years.
Indeed, right-wing populists in Europe are virtually guaranteed a pat on the back and a few words of encouragement from Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and even some US ambassadors.
This is not to say that everything the populists say is untrue.
But when today’s populists start blaming “the elites,” whoever they may be, and unpopular ethnic or religious minorities, for these difficulties, they sound uncomfortably close to the enemies of liberal democracy in the 1930s.
But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power; they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.
Apart from peculiar hairstyles (the balding Berlusconi has his head painted), the new populists have several things in common.
Europe’s Other Populist ProblemWASHINGTON, DC – European voters, looking at Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency in the United States and the hard road ahead for a post-Brexit Britain, may be turning away from right-wing populists such as Marine Le Pen in France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
But if European governments are to keep their own populists at bay, they will need to implement the substantial structural reforms that are necessary to deliver higher long-term economic growth.
By learning from one another, Europeans can save themselves from economic populism – and thus from the political populists, who would make matters far worse.
And while she remained silent, populists such as AfD Vice Chairman Alexander Gauland filled the airwaves with loud appeals to ethnic and nationalist nostalgia.
Germany is not the only European country where right-wing populists have made electoral gains in recent years.
Too many leaders are paying lip service to domestic nationalists and populists, mistakenly thinking that this will preserve their domestic poll ratings, when they should be showing genuine leadership and fighting for the common good.
Likewise, today’s right-wing populists have eagerly turned on the “establishment” and the “elites.”
In the wake of the protracted euro crisis, and the painful austerity that followed, today’s populists have been able to play on similar fears, again primarily among older workers and other vulnerable groups.
But, rather than focus on real solutions, today’s populists are often appealing to people’s basest instincts.
Otherwise, populists will continue to win support, with potentially severe consequences, as the Brexit debacle shows.
Voters have good reason to be frustrated, but the emotionally appealing populists to whom they are increasingly giving their support are offering ill-advised solutions that will only make matters worse.
The mother of all dangers is that identities can be manipulated for political gain, which is precisely what populists do.
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