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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. What you have described about movement towards populism or plutocracy, which I find

interesting about Trump is mixing populism and plutocracy, like one day he's

populists the next day he's a plutocrat.

So it's a very interesting combination.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

In the last German elections, the far-right alternative for Germany made big advances,

gaining 13% of the world becoming the third strongest party in the country in some states even the strongest party like Saxony.

This was one sign that populism is on the rise even in countries which have long fought to be quite stable like Germany.

But it was still tempting to think that the country would ultimately carry on as it did before. It looked likely that there

will be a coalition between Christian Democrats, Senate-right liberals, and Greens.

This now seems to have fallen apart,

and suddenly Germany is in a big crisis,

there's no government, it's not clear how they can form a government because the structural problem you get when populist rise

Which is that either you don't have a government or parties that aren't really ideologically aligned

Have to somehow find a way of working together and neither of these solutions is very good.

Now, I think in the short run there's going to be some kind of solution to this.

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