As national populist parties gain ground in the west, progressives must put social and climate priorities ahead of market interests<\/p>\n
Different year, same direction of travel. The likely formation<\/a> of the first far-right-led government in Austria\u2019s postwar history, after the breakdown this month of coalition talks<\/a> between mainstream parties, is the latest confirmation of the illiberal drift in western democracies. Only a few years ago, Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary remained a troublesome outlier in the European Union. These days, variations on Mr Orb\u00e1n\u2019s ethno-nationalist approach to 21st-century politics are flourishing across the continent. And in a week\u2019s time, Donald Trump will be back<\/a> in the White House.<\/p>\n In an era<\/a> of stagnating living standards and rising inequality, the growing appeal of national populism should not come as a surprise. The targeting of immigration, \u201cliberal elites\u201d and globalisation has channelled resentments felt in deindustrialised regions, where good jobs and a sense of identity were lost as capital and investment moved elsewhere. The migration of the less well-off<\/a> towards parties of the far right is a symptom of times in which trust in mainstream politics has collapsed.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As national populist parties gain ground in the west, progressives must put social and climate priorities ahead of market interests Different year, same direction of travel. The likely formation of the first far-right-led government in Austria\u2019s postwar history, after the breakdown this month of coalition talks between mainstream parties, is the latest confirmation of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}