{"id":10875,"date":"2017-06-27T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2017-06-28T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:01:58","slug":"lessons-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/lessons-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid a right-wing populist wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article by Amanda Taub from <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>. She describes how all the ingredients for a right-wing populist wave exist in Canada, but because of a collection of reasons it doesn&#8217;t happen. Probably key is that &#8220;immigration and racial diversity are sources of national pride.&#8221; Taub gives some historical context, going back to 1971 with Pierre Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/27\/world\/canada\/canadas-secret-to-resisting-the-wests-populist-wave.html\">Canada\u2019s Secret to Resisting the West\u2019s Populist Wave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article by Amanda Taub from The New York Times. She describes how all the ingredients for a right-wing populist wave exist in Canada, but because of a collection of reasons it doesn&#8217;t happen. Probably key is that &#8220;immigration and racial diversity are sources of national pride.&#8221; Taub gives some historical context, going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}