Has populism peaked?

  • 2017-05-17
  • Philippe Legrain
After last year, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as president, xenophobic nationalism was beginning to seem irresistible. Yet France has now become the biggest power to buck the trend, electing as its president the socially liberal, pro-immigration, and pro-Europe Emmanuel Macron. Has the wave of right-wing populism in the West really crested, as some are claiming? Macron’s remarkable victory certainly merits celebration. An independent centrist standing in his first election, Macron saw off the es...
 
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