Living With Populism
As the UK’s Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US President demonstrated, voters are too easily fooled by prejudice and false promises. The question is whether a brand of politics that threatens liberal democracy can also be reformulated to save it.
MADRID – “We must educate our masters,” Robert Lowe, a British statesman, told colleagues after the passage of the Second Reform Act of 1867, a law that added over a million voters to the Parliamentary Register. For Lowe, an educated populace was the best means to secure participatory governance in Britain.