As Le Pen rises Europe’s liberal dream is disappearing in front of our eyes | Rafael Behr

The liberal camp is leaving the door wide-open to illiberal or outright fascist/nazi camps by sticking its collective head firmly in the sand and refusing to acknowledge that people are indeed worried about intolerant minorities, unwilling to integrate and accept our way of life. Minorities that we so cheerfully welcome by the hundreds of thousands, soon to be millions. There would be nothing wrong if the intelligent, liberal part of our society expressed concern with the dangers posed for our way of life by, on one side, religious groups intolerant of our society, and, on the other side, by extreme right wing politics arising as a backlash.

 

The nationalism sweeping from France to Poland makes it harder to argue the case for Britain in the European Union

Source: As Le Pen rises Europe’s liberal dream is disappearing in front of our eyes | Rafael Behr

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