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The Rise and Fall of the Populist Right

I want to ask you about the right and particularly about the populist right. It seems entirely logical that in Europe, for example, many, many working class people are turning away from social democratic parties on and now voting for parties of the populistright. So isn't the rise of the populist right an understandable reaction to the degradations of work? No, because it started much earlier. But look, when I say that the right is more dangerous, they kill people. What are not killing people right now? And I'm thinking about the United States where we have a pre-Civil War state of affairs even in Congress.

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