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Do people still remember when and why people like Wilders, Le Pen, Strache, Orban began to be called populists? The term “radicals” would be much more accurate
What unites them is the desire to overturn the ruling values, which we may call late Western liberal values. On immigration, multiculturalism, world politics even architecture as with the Dutch gentleman whose name I momentarily forget
In Europe I continue to argue they have limited room. But outside Europe it’s a different game. Erdogan succeeded spectacularly in doing that, before everyone else. Congress in India is already moving. That value constellation is becoming more parochial
Erdogan and Modi had huge reservoirs of different traditions to overturn Westernizing tendencies, which were in any case seen as foreign. In Europe there is nothing else and the ruling values are seen as indigenous
Telling a few jokes like Salvini or building a ramshackle, grey, peripheral new Hungarian world like Orban has done will not cut it
