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COVID won't kill populism, even though populist leaders have crisis badly

  • Written by Nicholas Gruen, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney
COVID won't kill populism, even though populist leaders have crisis badlyAlex Brandon/AP

Three of the world’s most populist leaders of modern times – Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, have handled the COVID crisis badly.

All three have caught it.

In the Financial Times, chief economics commentator Martin Wolf has asked whether this spells the end of the sort of right wing aggressive...

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