[The Critic] Anatomy of a Populist Cynic

As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too.

It was only fitting that perhaps the oddest outlet to ride the wave of right-populist ferment into what Nigel Farage once called a “gas holder-looking theatre” at the mega-euro-race on June 9th was a “grouping of electors”, not a party proper, its gaping want of policy substance concealed by a red-tailed squirrel masked à la Guy Fawkes.

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