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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Just think how close we were to it breaking the other way with President Sanders.
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I thought that too for a long time but now my view is that it may simply have been postponing the inevitable.
France dodged the bullet by electing Macron but my sense is that the Le Pen crowd (whether it's Le Pen or someone else) will take power at some point in the not too distant future.
CityTech has made a good point that a lot of mainstream European parties have averted a right-wing populist political takeover of their countries by adopting milquetoast (right term?) versions of some of these guys' policies that seem to resonate the most with people.
It's a really tough balancing act to maintain because most any Western European party that's been in power over the past 20 years or more has had to toe the globalist, pro-diversity line because that's what the powerful interests want.
They can't go too far in the direction of the populists because "the power" (read = $$$) will abandon them.
And of course they're getting squeezed on the other side as well.