
The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism
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Is There a Fascist Feather in Brexit?
You've also been writing quite a lot about who the Brexiters are and how this populist moment fits into the longer history of neoliberalism. I think one thing that has become clear, which we weren't aware of when the referendum first happened, is that this doesn't fit the famous kind of left behind kind of image of the populist supporter at all. And what they desire of politics is a kind of breaking up of a kind of liberal order that they no longer consider to have legitimacy in some way. So I think that is a sort of key part of this, this, you know, this sort of crisis of liberalism that we're talking about.
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