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* The Western liberal democratic consensus that seemed rock-solid after the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] broke up has taken a battering in TheNewTens from many different directions. Chief among them:
** The Greek financial crisis, the refugee crisis, the 2015 Paris attacks and the Brexit referendum seem to be putting an end to the EU\\\'s dream of a [[UnitedEurope unified Europe]].
** On top of that, the Global Financial Crisis, a.k.a. the \\\'Great Recession\\\', of 2008 onwards could be heralding the beginning of the end of the neo-liberal financial sector dominance that was spearheaded by UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. What sets the GFC apart from previous recessions is that large financial institutions that managed to survive TheGreatDepression of the 1930s and subsequent recessions, and heavily benefited from deregulation in the 1980s, were at the heart of the crisis. In fact, David Smick of the \\\'\\\'[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers Washington Post]]\\\'\\\' wrote in 2012 that the \\\"[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-will-replace-the-globalization-model/2012/10/16/57cf62da-0e6d-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html globalization model of the past 30 years is cracking up. And there appears to be no new model to replace it.]]\\\"
** Since then, the neo-liberal economic order has come under further pressure from the emergence of populist political figures making appeals to those [[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/welcome-to-the-age-of-trump hit hardest by the Great Recession]], such as Creator/DonaldTrump and Bernie Sanders in America, and Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn in Britain (which as earlier mentioned voted to leave the EU).
** The [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/professor-thomas-weber-/strongmen-trump-liberal-world-order_b_9661636.html re-emergence of political strongmen]] in the early 21st Century such as Creator/DonaldTrump in America, UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}, Recep Tayip Erdogan in UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}, and various populist nationalist leaders in Europe, is believed to have dealt a blow to the liberal democracy of the post-ColdWar period as described by Francis Fukuyama in \\\"The End of History\\\". Hostility towards international treaty-based economies, disdain towards migrants, and a desire to return to isolationism may spell an end to globalized communities. Fukuyama himself has revisited the topic [[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/america-the-failed-state-donald-trump with a noticeably gloomier outlook from his End of History thesis]].
** Some say the 2016 election was also the end of moderate conservatism, as the GOP moved further to the right and started openly embracing the nationalistic rhetoric of the alt-right, which led to more traditional Republicans performing badly in elections.
** Further compounding the nationalist resurgence has been incidents of political violence, most infamously in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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* The Western liberal democratic consensus that seemed rock-solid after the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] broke up has taken a battering in TheNewTens from many different directions. Chief among them:
** The Greek financial crisis, the refugee crisis, the 2015 Paris attacks and the Brexit referendum seem to be putting an end to the EU\\\'s dream of a [[UnitedEurope unified Europe]].
** On top of that, the Global Financial Crisis, a.k.a. the \\\'Great Recession\\\', of 2008 onwards could be heralding the beginning of the end of the neo-liberal financial sector dominance that was spearheaded by UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. What sets the GFC apart from previous recessions is that large financial institutions that managed to survive TheGreatDepression of the 1930s and subsequent recessions, and heavily benefited from deregulation in the 1980s, were at the heart of the crisis. In fact, David Smick of the \\\'\\\'[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers Washington Post]]\\\'\\\' wrote in 2012 that the \\\"[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-will-replace-the-globalization-model/2012/10/16/57cf62da-0e6d-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html globalization model of the past 30 years is cracking up. And there appears to be no new model to replace it.]]\\\"
** Since then, the neo-liberal economic order has come under further pressure from the emergence of populist political figures making appeals to those [[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/welcome-to-the-age-of-trump hit hardest by the Great Recession]], such as Creator/DonaldTrump and Bernie Sanders in America, and Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn in Britain (which as earlier mentioned voted to leave the EU).
** The [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/professor-thomas-weber-/strongmen-trump-liberal-world-order_b_9661636.html re-emergence of political strongmen]] in the early 21st Century such as Creator/DonaldTrump in America, UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}, Recep Tayip Erdogan in UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}, and various populist nationalist leaders in Europe, is believed to have dealt a blow to the liberal democracy of the post-ColdWar period as described by Francis Fukuyama in \\\"The End of History\\\". Hostility towards international treaty-based economies, disdain towards migrants, and a desire to return to isolationism may spell an end to globalized communities. Fukuyama himself has revisited the topic [[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/america-the-failed-state-donald-trump with a noticeably gloomier outlook from his End of History thesis]].
** Some say the 2016 election was also the end of moderate conservatism, as the GOP moved further to the right and started openly embracing the nationalistic rhetoric of the alt-right, which led to more traditional Republicans performing badly in elections.
** Further compounding the nationalist resurgence has been incidents of political violence, most infamously in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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