Posted on 01/30/2018 9:23:26 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Whether springing up in the U.S., Europe or Asia, populists are predictable. Immigrants and elites are usually the first to be targeted by these groups. Populists appeal to "true" citizens to reclaim their homeland, through border walls and trade protectionism. The free press will also come under assault, described by populists as "fake news" and enemies of the truth. Next, the populist will turn his fire on the judiciary and legislative mechanisms responsible for checking executive power.
Notwithstanding global anxieties over populists like U.S. President Donald Trump, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, there is still a surprising level of confusion about what is, and what is not, populism. While there are multiple definitions in circulation, populism can be distilled to three essential characteristics: popular but unsustainable policies; the designation of a specific population group as the sole "legitimate" members of a nation; and highly personalized styles of leadership emphasizing a direct relationship with "the people."
There is growing consensus that populism constitutes a grave threat to liberal democracy, and to the liberal international order on which peace and prosperity have rested for the past two generations. ......
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
The “liberal” global order folks did themselves in because it dissolved its ties to the roots of the political cultures and nations from which it sprang.
Fukuyama is one of those guys “Liberals” love to quote, even though most all his prognostications over the years have been wrong.
What can be more anti-democratic that the WTO and other trade treaties that pass control of economically significant portions of the economy to unelected and often foreign bureaucrats? Not to mention the EU Commission, whose unelected members charge Poland's elected government with embracing "anti-European" un-democratic values.
It is the suffocating and corrupt "Grosse Koalition" in Germany that is pauperizing the German working and middle classes and flooding the country with ignorant, violent foreigners, driving millions of voters into the waiting arms of "extremist" parties that have the temerity to insist that Germany remain, well, German.
In every Western country, it is the globalist attempt to replace democracy with a corrupt, unaccountable administrative despotism that is creating political instability.
Hey Francis, How could this be? I thought history was over. (At least I read that somewhere.)
In the coming years globalists/progressives will “amend” the constitution out of existence.
Fukuyama, your “country” needs you. Please return to Global Shitholia immediately.
Typical elitist Globe and Mail.
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