Liberal internationalists have to own up: we left too many people behind | Timothy Garton Ash

Globalisation was great for some, but created widespread grievances that are now being exploited by populists

“The trouble with Hillary,” said a fellow watcher of Clinton’s second debate with Donald Trump, “is that she comes across as the liberal consensus personified.” Exactly so, and anti-liberalism is one of the threads that connects Trumpism, the Brexit vote, Poland’s nationalist populist government, Putinism and much else.

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