مجلة العلوم وافاق المعارف
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 367-385
2026-06-10
The End Of Politics As Usual? Populism In Western Europe And North America
Authors : Bachagha Chargui . Drid Fatma .
Abstract
Across both ends of the Atlantic, the permissive consensus that had for long acted as a safety net for the liberal democratic practice is being challenged by a plebiscitary trend. This new breed of populist politics threatens not only to disassociate liberalism from democracy— by creating zones of deliberation above the polity— but also consciously attempts to reconfigure the very ontology of politics. In this article we pick four episodes from Western Europe and North America, which we think are representative of the global shift in political order towards the mainstreaming of populism: Le Front National in France; the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany; Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy; and Donald Trump in the United States. Ultimately, this piece argues that the populist far right has managed to become mainstream in Western politics; consequently, for liberal democracy to survive, populism should be managed, not dismissed. In other words, to keep the symphony of liberal democracy from falling out of tune, it may be necessary to harmonize with populism rather than trying to silence it.
Keywords
populism ; liberal democracy ; Western politics ; the mainstream
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