The Weekend Intelligence: Nigel Farage's Big Night Out

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  The Economist We spend a lot of time on the show talking about right-wing populists.

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  They are very on trend right now.

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  You know the names, Trump, Orban, Maloney.

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  You'd best get to know another, Britain's Nigel Farage.

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  Back in the late 1990s,

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  he carried out a hostile takeover of the tiny UK Independence Party, UKIP.

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  founded on the principle of breaking up with the European Union.

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  By 2014, UKIP had won the largest share of Britain's contingent in Europe's Parliament.

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  Prime Minister David Cameron,

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  wishing vainly to put the question of European membership to bed,

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  put the question to a referendum.

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  And Igel Farage got what seemed like his lifelong dream, Brexit.

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  But then he didn't go away.

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  He didn't quiet down.

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  For his fans, his was the one true voice on immigration and British decline.

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  For everyone else, well, he was in irrelevance, or even a caricature,

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  a punchline whose ideas would only make post-Brexit Britain even poorer and more dysfunctional.

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  That, these days, is a miscalculation.

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  I'm Jason Palmer, and this is the Weekend Intelligence.

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  A quirk of the very electoral system that usually pushes out third parties might well make room for Mr. Farage's latest party,

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