Is the political center a lost cause? Look around the map of what we are accustomed to calling the "West," and that's how it seems. Right now, both the radical left and the radical right are on the rise. In Britain, the Labour Party is now led by an old-fashioned Marxist with an unapologetic anti-Semitic streak; in Germany, a proto-fascist political party that wants a reassessment of Germany's wartime role controls 13 percent of Parliament. In the upcoming Swedish elections next week, the far right is expected to do well, too, for the first time since World War II.
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