When there are no European parties to respond to citizens’ demands, you get populism

When there are no European parties to respond to citizens’ demands, you get populism

At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, with the spread of the economic and financial crisis all over the world, the idea that the difference between the left and the right had vanished influenced national political arenas. The truth is a bit different, however.

The increasing success of the so-called populist movements, and their related propaganda, creates a very tough challenge to the mainstream parties. First of all, the cleavages. The classic clash on the political spectrum with two recognisable main blocks, the right and the left, has been questioned.

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