The new millennium has been unkind to democracy, but never has the brand suffered greater damage than it did in 2016. The populist winds that have been roiling the world finally reached the Atlantic, marking Britain and the United States’s retreat into nativism. Through the hallowed means of the ballot, Britain voted itself out of the European Union and America elected for president an unvarnished populist with white nationalists in the wing. A quarter century after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” with free market globalisation as the engine to carry the world to a liberal democratic utopia, the …read more
Source: The National
