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HappyHouse's avatar

Thomas, your illuminating but dispiriting article 'How the Establishment Is Domesticating Populism' published in Compact and your assessment that "Romania’s recent electoral history illustrates the establishment’s two-tiered approach: suppress those who pose a real challenge, and elevate those who only pretend to. In doing so, it preserves its hold on power while adapting to an increasingly restive electorate." can equally be applied to Nigel Farage and the Reform party in the UK. The question is who can the European and Anglosphere publics look to in the political arena for providing a way out of this trap?

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ann watson's avatar

that's disappointing. I didn't know the inside - from the outside it looked like Georgescu and Simion were in the same party. Also the decision of the top court that overturned the EU's ousting of Georgescu - why isn't that being used ? Is there another run off where Simion and Georgescu will run against each other now ?

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