How immigration fuels an axis of nationalism across the West

The battle over the immigration issue in America has masked what could prove a more fundamental change internationally: the emergence of a new axis including political leaders across the Atlantic who, like President Trump, have placed an angry mix of nationalism and populism at the heart of their message. It is happening in Poland, Hungary, Austria, as well as with Italy’s newly installed populist coalition and Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was given a path to virtually unchallenged power by his latest election victory Sunday. The anti-immigrant nationalists in France, under the banner of Marine Le Pen, were dealt a blow last year by the election of President Emmanuel Macron.

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