Populism Isn’t So Popular After All
Around the world, nationalist governments that claimed to speak for silent majorities are hanging on to power with minority support.
In the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson’s prime ministership, premised on Brexit at all costs, is teetering. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is two weeks from an election that may or may not return him to power, but he appears to be in a slow political decline either way. In Italy, Matteo Salvini’s stratagem to seize power has, at least for now, been derailed by a coalition that opposes him. And in the United States, President Donald Trump is a barely year away from facing voters, with the economy shaky and his approval rating still mired in negative territory.
