In the Financial Times, Jonathan Derbyshire reviews a couple of books about the crisis in western politics --
The emergence over the past few years of a more confrontational style of politics, in which charismatic leadership matters more than policy and the old division between right and left matters less than that between “internationalists and nativists”, leads Krastev to predict that 2017 “may end up being just as consequential” as 1917, the year of the Russian revolution.
The point that there's a stylistic element to populist politics as much as ideological is extremely important.
The emergence over the past few years of a more confrontational style of politics, in which charismatic leadership matters more than policy and the old division between right and left matters less than that between “internationalists and nativists”, leads Krastev to predict that 2017 “may end up being just as consequential” as 1917, the year of the Russian revolution.
The point that there's a stylistic element to populist politics as much as ideological is extremely important.
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