Has Europe Reached Peak Populism? The tide may have turned against nationalist right.

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oh, if only the USA would help turn this tide. Come NOv 2020!!



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Has Europe Reached Peak Populism?

The tide may have turned against nationalist right.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/05/has-europe-reached-peak-populism-228036




By PAUL TAYLOR September 05, 2019

Paul Taylor, contributing editor at POLITICO Europe, writes the Europe At Large column.


PARIS—It may seem perverse, in the week when the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) posted record scores in two regional elections, to even whisper that anti-EU populism may have peaked in Europe.

Yet a series of events and votes in Italy, Britain, France, Spain, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic suggest the tide could be turning against the anti-establishment nationalist movements that have upended politics across the Continent, leaving the barbarians howling in frustration at the gates.

That doesn’t mean that the social and economic distress that turned many working-class, rural and poorer voters against the traditional political parties, the parliamentary system and the European Union has gone away. But the populists seem unable to secure a majority for their radical, anti-European course almost anywhere.

The most obvious case is Italy. Former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, whose far-right League Party was sharing power uneasily with the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement (M5S) in Western Europe’s first populist government, thought the country was ripe for a hard-right turn and pulled the plug on the coalition in mid-August, demanding an early election.........................

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1. I think so. They are seeing the crap that president rump is doing here in the states. And...

they are running for the exits so fast in supporting far right candidates. The same is slowly happening here, with the disaster of the latest midterms where control of the House was lost by the GOP, and poll numbers are showing that the GOP is heading for a disaster in the next election cycle.