The New Right’s Political Insurgency

A populist attack on the prevailing liberal consensus is being led by nationalist parties with a counter-liberal ideology.

These parties are hostile to free trade, mass immigration and multiculturalism, foreign intervention, and supranational organisations and bodies, including the EU.

For the time being, the insurgents are—for the most part—winning. This is a potentially consequenti EU shift.

Support for the Finns dropped after a period in coalition from 2015 to 2017, but has revived under the leadership of Riikka Purra, nicknamed the “vote queen” of the election.

The Alternative for Germa the Old Left iv für Deutschland) party has fallen in the polls over the past year, but at 16 percent of the vote.

Britain has not yet developed a New Right party, but it may now follow European example as populists like Nigel Farage seek to blame the deleterious economic effects of Brexit on an establishment too incompetent to deliver its expected dividends.

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