Centrist Politics Is Still Failing

Until the technocrats give up their delusions, the populists will continue to gain.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) arrives as French President Emmanuel Macron talks to the media in Brussels, Belgium, December 14, 2017.

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Shouldn’t the anti-populists have started to rally by now?

If the responsible liberal technocrats are right about populism, and it is led by dim bulbs, or the corrupt, or the compromised, we should see signs of it falling on its face. Shouldn’t we?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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