09 Aug 2024
Europe
How the immigration backlash weakens democracy
In Europe, we’ve seen the pattern again and again since 2015: Mass low-skilled immigration spurs a backlash The backlash strengthens nationalist parties, who then get 10, 20, 30 per cent of the seats in the legislature The normal political parties create a cordon sanitaire, some kind of promise not to do business with the baddies […]
