Why We Need To Brace Ourselves For The Populist Wave to Come | Time.com
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▻https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/wave-come-forces-nationalism-crisis-west-global-thomas-d
When the storm turns out to be less severe than the warnings, there’s always a sigh of relief—and maybe a bit of over-confidence after the fact. If fans of the European Union felt better after populist Geert Wilders came up short in the Dutch elections in March, they also took heart from the absence of anti-E.U. firebrands among the leading contenders for this fall’s German elections. Then came May 7. The victory of Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential elections signaled that “the season of growth of populism has ended,” Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said on May 8.