The surge of populism and nationalism

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“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in The Spectator, “are rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so despite the opposition and angry scorn of political and intellectual establishments of Left and Right, and with a resilience that they find baffling. Nothing exemplifies that resilience more than the current standing of Donald Trump’s third presidential campaign. Trump didn’t come close to a plurality, much less a majority, of the popular vote as the Republican nominee in 2016 and 2020; his conduct led to his party’s loss of its House...