Since 2015 international politics have sped up and changed direction.
The return to power of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by Jaroslav
Kaczynski in October 2015, the Brexit vote in June 2016 and the Trump
victory in November 2016 should be seen in conjunction and taken as
portents of a new political era.
Those three major events, corroborated by the growing impact of
populist movements in power or aspiring to power (Italy is the latest
very significant example), symbolize the dawning of a new era, and a new
kind of populism internationally. Beyond the classical characteristics
of populist movements, namely nationalism, anti-liberalism,
anti-elitism, nativism and a pronounced anti-immigration stance, this “populism of the 21st century”
is driven by anti-globalization instincts, an open refusal of logic,
rationality, science and the objective truth, the institutionalization
of state and para-state violence and the blurring of the distinction
between Right and Left resulting in the quasi-demise of the reformist
and democratic Left..''
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