How to defeat populism – activation

How to defeat populism – activation

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when JD Vance Tours Tweet of the Cotswolds this month on its family vacation, will definitely conclude that the populist fire is sweeping Shires. Throughout the Central England and abroad, the ruling Labor Party and the opposition governors raise ridicule if not contempt.

In a vacuum, Nigel Farraj climbed from the UK reform, the latest smooth student to narrate the voters with his routine, “I am the only one who tells him as it is.”

Britain, if anything, is tangible to the Foundation of the Foundation in Europe. Throughout the continent, the prevailing party after the party intimidated the importance and confidence, which they condemned their satisfaction like anything else. This is not only about Europe. Donald Trump on a roll. From Chile to Japan, in various ways, calling for the sirens of the popular people strikes a tendon.

How do you respond? Globally, liberals in Vanck. But for those who tend to lose their heart about the opportunity to elect voter at the age of the anger that ALG is angry, I have an answer: Go to Buchast, the heavy capital capital. There you can get a brush course on how to keep the populists in the Gulf.

In the same way, Romania is a strange case study for good rule. It was one of the slowest countries in Eastern Europe that adopts democracy and the free market after the end of communism. Over the past three decades, the center and the mid -oath has alternately headed due to a faded record. Loved capitalism flourished, as well as disappointment with the fruits of the European Union membership.

So in an area with a history of deep nationalism, and maturity for the exploitation of Russian robots, it was not surprising that the populists were walking before this year’s elections – until they faced a calm mind with a history of accomplishing matters.

Nicuşor Dan, a former professor of mathematics and mayor of Bukharst, who was elected president in May, when he was asked to advise his colleagues in the middle. But he embodies and recorded a number of lessons related to Mr. Kerr Starmer, the British Prime Minister, and other leaders in a loss due to the popular increase.

The first is the credibility, which was lost in Britain after a set of unreasonable pledges over the years. “In Romania, people went to the populists because they did not trust the state, the authorities,” says Dan. “They see corruption and injustice … The only goal is to restore people’s confidence.”

Its solution is a political fact for a time: Does the boring tasks of the government and voters may remember you? As the mayor of Bucharest, real estate developers took on behalf of young people and supervised the renewal of the city’s heating system: not surprising but invaluable goals.

His challenge in its new job is to reduce the budget deficit-the highest in the European Union-to gain support in the divided parliament of the necessary cost line for this purpose. Again, he indicates his record, in this case in the operation of Bucharest’s budget. Debt payments consumed three quarters of them when he took responsibility. “I spent a year and a half to reschedule our obligations.” City money is now on the right track.

Then there is a tone. “Even if society is extremely, I tried to be civilized with others,” says Dan. “I am trying to have a dialogue. People felt that they are not taking into account.”

The president speaks quietly, you have to ignore his hearing, but he knows how to run in his corner, as is the case in the pre -election discussion when he demolished his non -funded opponents’ pledges. It shakes the idea of joining populists. However, he is also ready to take his side, as he did recently when he was challenging-without feasibility-a draft law for hate that he believed went very far.

Then there is its strategic use of silence. He is waiting for 15-20 seconds before answering some questions. Excessive to be very fast about the amplifier will be wrong: it’s those who have mastery of digital media, such as Trump and Varge, who make straw. But his reflection is a value variation with the noise of his opponents.

Romania also manifests less lessons in democracy. Vans was right to call the courts’ intervention earlier this year to ban the presidential campaign of Călin Georgescu, patriotism at the time.

I informed this column that I wrote in May under the title.How do you fight populism: a lesson from RomaniaNow I can write my Riposte. Honey will end in Dan soon. But the lessons he currently offers: accomplish matters, show respect, do not dance to the melody of populists and remember the strength of strategic silence.

Alex.russell@ft.com

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