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A new wave of populism is challenging major democracies at a time when Russia is escalating the most brutal attack on the Western liberal order in decades.
In France, the United States, Hungary and elsewhere, the center seems to be shifting as moderates are losing ground to radicals on the right and left, amid growing public discontent following a two-year pandemic that saw governments significantly restricted individual freedoms.
17 months ago, the American campaign won by a veteran establishment politician Joe Biden, says CNN, seemed to herald the end of the road to former populist crusade leader Donald Trump. Republicans, however, appear to be on track to win the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, in the midterm elections in the fall. They are taking advantage of deep nationwide frustrations over rising prices and high oil costs that Biden has not been able to contain.
Many are also spreading fiery messages about racial, gender and LGBT issues or immigration, implying that traditional American culture is in danger of being destroyed. In France, President Emmanuel Macron – the epitome of technocratic elitism – now faces a two-week fierce battle to defeat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic and pro-Putin. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also retained the post after an overwhelming election victory this month.
“The invasion of Ukraine strengthened the world like never before since the Cold War,” said Nicholas Dungan of the Atlantic Council. However, he adds, on the other hand today we see a world deeply divided between countries that want to uphold the rule of law and democracy and those that fight for the opposite.
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