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Mass migration and the collapse of liberalism. Who is to blame for the rise of right-wing populism?
The growing popularity of right-wing populist movements in Europe and the United States is a consequence of migration policy, says American journalist Bret Stevens. “Post-liberal governments have used unclear legal mechanisms or simply ignored the law to try to bring about social transformation without explicit public consent,” he writes in an article for The New York Times. We publish a translation of Stevens' text.
It has been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, uttered the famous phrase “Wir schaffen das”—“We can handle this”—in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. The Wall Street Journal recently reported : “For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading polls in Britain, France and Germany.” Similar parties are already in power or government in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, not to mention the United States.
To say that the West's turn to the anti-immigrant right was a predictable result of Merkel's disastrous decision to open Germany's borders is not to say that there aren't lessons to be learned - especially for the most feckless of all the major political parties in the world today, the US Democratic Party.
About 20 years ago, and maybe even earlier, liberal democracy had two half-brothers - post-liberal democracy and pre-liberal democracy.
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