{"id":487,"date":"2002-04-23T12:59:26","date_gmt":"2002-04-23T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/europes-right-shift\/"},"modified":"2002-04-23T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2002-04-23T19:59:26","slug":"europes-right-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/europes-right-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s right shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; This op-ed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=105001966\">OpinionJournal<\/a> fleshes-out some of the details of the center-right forces achieving dominance in Europe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn any event, we will not have to worry about Mr. Le Pen for more than the two weeks until the runoff. When Mr. Chirac is re-elected, he will have to lead his country in a very new Europe, but not the center-left Europe so long imagined by most of the intellectuals and fashionable politicians. Through no particular merit of his own, Mr. Chirac will be a major player in a center-right Europe that will be more suspicious of the mounting power of the European bureaucracy in Brussels, less inclined to dissolve national identities in a new continental union, and keen on retaining more initiative in national legislatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the predictable responses to globalization is a resurgence of tribalism. In the third world, this takes the form of religious zealotry, and in the first world, nationalism. It&#8217;s an interesting deal.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; This op-ed in OpinionJournal fleshes-out some of the details of the center-right forces achieving dominance in Europe: In any event, we will not have to worry about Mr. Le Pen for more than the two weeks until the runoff. When Mr. Chirac is re-elected, he will have to lead his country in a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/europes-right-shift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Europe&#8217;s right shift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-7R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}