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Dawn of new political eras in US and France?

The nationalists vs globalists dichotomy is splitting both the old left and the old right

Wed, Apr 26, 2017 - 5:50 AM

The rise of nationalist parties in Europe may signal that the struggle between the right and left has been replaced by the conflict between nationalists such as Ms Le Pen (above right) and Mr Trump and internationalists such as Mr Macron (above left) and Ms Clinton.

PHOTO: AFP

WE have employed the labels "left" and "right" so frequently during our contemporary political discourse that some of us assume that those terms may have a timeless quality and that they reflect the clash between two coherent explanations about how society should work. God created the world,...