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Munk Debates: Should we fear, or embrace, populist politics?
So in the end, we shall welcome and not denounce populist politics. He is the author of “In Defense of Populism: Protest and American Democracy.”By Timothy Garton AshI’m all in favour of popular protest as part of a democracy, but that’s not populism. The remarkable thing is that, different though these people and countries are, in the last five years they’ve had a style of politics that has distinct features in common. Donald Trump is a millionaire son of a millionaire, and Boris Johnson is hardly a horny-handed son of toil. The “them,” immigrants, be it Hispanics in the United States or east Europeans in the United Kingdom during the Brexit debate.
Source: National Post November 25, 2020 17:47 UTC
