Re: NYTimes.com: After a Rocky 2018, Populism Is Down but Far From Out in the West

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 > From: Heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
 > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 12:01:52 -0800
 >
 > Interesting
 > 
 > From The New York Times:
 > 
 > After a Rocky 2018, Populism Is Down but Far From Out in the West
 > 
 > Hard-line leaders and parties are responding to setbacks by revitalizing a 
 > sense of crisis and stripping down their message to its core: a skepticism 
 > toward liberal ideals.
 > 
 > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/world/europe/populism-voters-global.html

The main problem with liberalism is that it has a lot of contradictions.
It's hard for politicians, let alone constituents, navigate these
contradictions.  Despite authoritarianism and anarchism being the least
contradictory and most straightforward ideologies, people seem to be OK
with inconsistent philosophies but they almost always end up in fights and
conflicts over the details.