The Little Black Book of the Populist Right : What it is, why it's on the march and how to stop it

Across Europe and America national-populism is on the march. From Hungary via Italy to France the far right are either in power or knocking on the door. In America, Donald Trump is odds-on to retake the presidency. Even in Britain – an oasis of social-democratic success – the Reform Party has out-performed its predecessors, split the Tory vote, and provided an exemplar for a Conservative right keen to recapture the red wall. In The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar chart the rise of national-populism, and expose the flaws and fallacies of its ideology. In this edited extract, Bloomfield and Edgar outline the threat increasingly posed by national-populism to the postwar progressive consensus.