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Runaway1956 [soylentnews.org] writes:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-march-of-populism-into-2017-will-be-good-for-the-world/article/2610506 [washingtonexaminer.com]

The march of populism into 2017 will be good for the world

By JANICE ATKINSON • 12/29/16 12:04 AM
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This was the year when democracy punched massive holes in the smug and consensual regimes of the global liberal elite. And there is more to come from the so-called populists who are derided by the elites in direct correlation to the threat they pose to them.

In 2017 populist parties are standing on the verge of victory, include Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and parties such as Italy's Lega Nord and Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland.

It started in 2016 with the Brexit campaign. The liberal elites of David Cameron's government and his political cronies across the globe insisted the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union. This patronizing view was shared by global banks, big business, the taxpayer-funded BBC and the liberal media.

Despite a collective pat on the head from the great, the good and the unaccountable, the British people calmly and deliberately voted to take back control of their nation, its borders and their destiny.

I started the year at CPAC in Washington, where I met leading Republicans and a number of President-elect Trump's advisors. From Speaker Paul Ryan, to K.T. McFarland of Fox News, to Breitbart's Steve Bannon — they all understood Brexit. All were baffled at Britain's ceding of its historic sovereignty to a supra-national entity hell-bent on opening its borders to the uncontrolled mayhem of mass immigration.

I saw the power of Trump's campaign focusing on security, immigration and the economy. I believed then that both he and the Nigel Farage-inspired Brexit movements would triumph.

President Obama's intervention in Brexit was a game-changer. We had a special relationship. The Thatcher/Reagan alliance changed the world, brought communism to and end and all without a shot being fired. That relationship was put under strain during the Blair/Bush/Clinton/Cameron/Obama era with bloody and messy Middle East failures, which led to the birth of the Islamic State. Their meddling in the so-called Arab Spring, which saw the fall of Mubarak in Egypt and Gaddafi in Libya, led to the ensuing chaos of mass migration to Europe. The Arab world is not predisposed to liberal democracy, and now we are all paying the price.

The Islamic State's modus operandi is for its murderers to infiltrate Europe via the masses of migrants queuing up to get in, as in Paris, Brussels and Berlin.

Some migrants we welcomed abused our generosity. On New Year's Eve in German and Swedish cities, young male migrants sexually attacked women. These attacks were initially unreported by the liberal media, guided by police and governments who believed that to publicize them would be politically incorrect.

CNN video Populism: What next after Trump and Brexit? 02:30
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/29/rise-of-populism-orig.cnn [cnn.com]

The left tries hard to paint this picture of some evil "alt-right", but there is no "alt-right". Let's give this movement a more fitting name - POPULISM.

We saw the British Exit, or Brexit. Ready for Frexit? http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/30/ppopulist-politics-first-brexit-now-frexit.html [cnbc.com]

Go ahead, do your own web searches, using the term "populism".

Could be, it's time for the elitests to stop mocking the people?

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