Kirjoittaja: Asevelisosialidemokraatti

Asevelisosialidemokraatti — Mon, 08 May 2017 07:45:14 +0000

Sanoisin näin -lainauksella:”Should Marine Le Pen lose the French election and Angela Merkel retain power in Germany, the crisis of western liberalism will not have suddenly ended, though I suspect it will be broadcast as such. Nor, for that matter, would America be secure if Clinton were now in the White House. The self-belief of western elites saps their ability to grasp the scale of the threat.”

”Should Emmanuel Macron win the French election, supporters of liberal democracy, including me, must pray that he — and other leaders like him — will succeed. But he will have won on the basis of issuing vague, catch-all promises without a majority party to carry out his wishes. Obama offered similar hope in 2008 when his party was in full control. Eight years later America elected Trump.

The west’s crisis was not invented in 2016. Nor will it vanish in 2017. It is structural and likely to persist. Those who gloss over this are doing liberal democracy no favours.”

Lähde: https://www.ft.com/content/c7444248-3000-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a?desktop=true

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