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Future not bright for the right, nor for left

Political situation in the West is complicated, and so-called right-wing surge is anything but

Published Mon, Sep 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    IF you are a proud member of the political right or employ the "conservative" tag to affirm your ideological orientation, you are probably a happy-go-lucky kind of guy these days; perhaps even a bit ecstatic. Let's be honest: You feel like you're in heaven!

    And, indeed, why shouldn't you feel like a winner, and that the sky's the limit, when it comes to advancing your right-wing political agenda? Life is good and it's only going to get better.

    The irony is that your sense of optimism is being boosted after reading what your ideological adversaries on the political left are saying and writing: That the victories of Donald Trump and his nationalist agenda in the United States and of the proponents of Brexit and the anti-European Union (EU) forces in the UK, coupled with the surge of populists, nativists, and even racists, in France, Holland, Italy, Greece, with ultra-conservative political parties now in control in Poland and Hungary, are signs that the future belongs to the political right.

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