It seems now, finally, to be the turn of the United Kingdom to join in the Western World’s move toward the populist Right. This trend has been widely observable in many countries as disparate as Argentina and Italy, two of the pioneers of this trend, as they were two of the most poorly governed of the large democracies of the West. As all the world knows, in the United States, a complete outsider has not only taken over the Republican Party and the White House, but radically changed the nature of public policy and the tenor of public discourse. In a desperate last stand, the bipartisan establishment heaped utterly spurious prosecutions on Donald Trump and he was acquitted by a jury of 78 million Americans. If he completes this term in good health, he will be only the 12^th president in American history (of 45) to win two contested presidential terms and serve them entirely. And he is the only person ever elected president without ever having sought or held any other public office, elected or unelected, or a high military command. Donald Trump has effected a radical change within the two-party system that has existed without serious interruption since the Civil War 160 years ago.

This same tendency to the populist Right is very evident in France where Marine Le Pen looked well set to win the presidency of the Republic in her fourth attempt, though she too has been spuriously attacked by a politicised prosecution system. It is more likely that either she will overcome the threat or public irritation at the abuse that it represents will, as in the United States, redound to the benefit of her party whether she is leading it or not. Even more recently, the German elections which interrupted the rivalry as old as the Federal Republic between the Christian and Social Democrats by catapulting the Alternative For Germany (AfD) party into the position of official opposition, have generated a suspiciously timed and dubiously motivated 1,100 page finding that the party of 20 per cent of all Germany is an extreme organization. The candidate for chancellor of the Alternative, Alice Weidel, states that her political heroine is Margaret Thatcher. The hero of the incoming Chancellor Friedrich Mertz is Ronald Reagan, and President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher were closer in outlook and personality than two peas in a pod, so the insinuation that the Alternative For Germany is an extremist organization, a label of chilling historical implications in Germany, is suspect.