The advantage of traveling through the West and comparative analysis is the possibility of measuring the major trends in our societies, in this revolutionary period when everything in our political systems seems to move, to shake, to fragment. .
In recent years, the similarities have become more striking than the differences.
Like cycles.
So in the Netherlands, where the liberals have just confirmed their supremacy.
Putting together the victory of Democrat Joe Biden and that of liberal Mark Rutte, observers conclude that “techno-liberalism” still has a few bright days ahead.
Read also: Netherlands: fractures masked by the Covid
As Francis Fukuyama had predicted in an article in
Foreign Affairs
, the Covid seems to have temporarily weakened populism, by fragmenting it.
But - because there is a substantial “but” - our interlocutors in Amsterdam warn against hasty conclusions.
Because what also strikes in Batavian soil is how much this small country known for its health
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