2025-09-09
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Insurgents who want to smash the system often end up running it.
For Europe's hard right, that outcome is already a glimmer on the horizon.
They are ahead in the polls or their abouts.
In Britain, France and Germany.
In Italy, they are in power.
In the Netherlands, they briefly led a coalition.
And in Poland, in June, their presidential candidate saw off the nominee from the centre.
By 2027,
the hard right could be an office in economies worth getting on for half of the European GDP.
That would be a grave blow to European prosperity.
The direct threat is the hard right's use of power.
They sneer at technocratic management,
vow to protect voters from competition and creative destruction,
and instead offer a seductive combination of handouts and tax cuts.
Outright electoral success would mean more economic stagnation or even rolling bond market blow-ups.