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> Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK. Maybe besides the p
by ollifi 5y ago
> Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK.
Maybe besides the point, but nordic countries do have significant populist movements. In Finland (which I know best) populist Finns Party[1] is the largest party according to polls at the moment. We had our trump/brexit moment in 2011 when they took landslide victory against what the experts and ”elites” expected.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Party
- MagnumOpus 5y ago"Landslide" meaning 19%, and not able to form a government. A far cry for the 40%+ for hard-right Brexiteers or 48% for Trump.
- ollifi 5y agoTrue. Landslide is a wrong word here. I meant It had similar Nobody saw it coming -narrative attached to it. Also hard to compare vote result percentages between multiparty and two options votes.