Nationalism on the rise in the West. The Economist thought they were being cute with this piece probably. Trump, Putin, Farage, Le Pen are the leaders embodiment of this movement. Only difference is now that instead of nationalism being a movement that purely unites a country against others it is now uniting countries against a Globalist movement.
Globalization is being rejected harshly by the West with the election of Trump and Brexit. There are still yet even more movements across Europe to leave the EU with referendums.
Globalization probably would have worked had they not tried to force it down the throats of those with a strong sense of national identity. I could still see it becoming a thing had these globalists not taxed the shit out of their citizens to bring in millions of foreigners and tried to force different cultures to mesh with each other. They also demonized and shamed those who held onto their national identity. Americans and British got sick of it and other nations are following.
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