The Turks used to be a very secular country, but erdogan is slowly turning it into another theocracy.
That's a problem.
While I agree that national populism is a conservative trend pushing nation's toward nostalgia and a yearning for how the populations in them used to be, unless they are aggressive toward their neighbors, I don't see how this is a problem for some nations, but not others.
What goes on with the internal affairs of other nations is none of our business, just as what goes on here is none of theirs.
Nothing bothers me more than these British folks and common wealth posters coming on here telling us our right to bear arms or right to protected free speech is a problem FOR THEM?! wtf?
Unfortunately national populism does spark a lust for the land and politics outside of the nation.
As the old world order breaks down, the trend toward revanchism is being felt in many many parts of the world.
The same factors that are leading to these trends in the population of Turkey for example, are also the same factors the led to the rise of MAGA IMO.
The conservatives in Israel go on about the desire for a "Greater Israel," while folks on the borders of Russia are might bit suspicious of the Russians motivations for expanding as well.
Hell, even the revanchists in Modi's government now want India to be called Bharat.
Establishmentarians, leftists and globalists just use national populism as a polite term for national tendencies toward revanchism and irridentism, as the world's single greatest super power weakens a bit and other powers get stronger leading to the multi-polar world emerging again anew.
The fact that these movements have emerged in so many different countries in one era effectively rules out some popular explanations.
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