The March/April issue of Foreign Affairs offers, on p. 61, a
long essay by Lars-Erik Cederman, “Blood for Soil: The Fatal Temptation of
Ethnic Politics”, link.
The writer is a professor of International Conflict Research
at ETH Zurich.
The combination of growing inequality and the hardships
imposed by helping the migrants in Europe have given rise to ethnic nationalism
in some countries, especially in eastern Europe.
Often, as with Trump in the US, it is rural whites who feel they
are being sacrificed for abstract (to them) goals like climate change. And some will look to authoritarian figures
like Orban or Erdogan to make an ethnic group for them and expropriate by force
from their enemies and make things right. Trump is not as bad as some of these
dictators in Europe.
In Poland, some politicians no go after gays as enemies of “Christian
western culture”.
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