A spectre haunts Europe. That’s what the liberal establishment would have us believe. ‘Right wing populism’, often described as the ‘far right’, stalks many European countries. But what is the “far right”? Sure, there are some nasty types in this new wave of political activity. Thugs, racists and unsavoury people. But that doesn’t explain what is actually going on. The rise of the populists has not simply come out of the blue. It took decades, in fact, for people’s anger across Europe to fuel the rise of these parties. For years, the liberal establishment told the people that concerns about im…
