The easiest way to win votes these days is by selling the past. “Nostalgic nationalism”, as my FT colleague Gideon Rachman writes, unites Brexit’s “Take Back Control”, Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Vladimir Putin’s reassertion of Russian power. There’s only one viable counter-strategy, and French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is trying it in this spring’s election: he is selling the future.
如今,推銷往昔成了贏得選票的最容易方式。正如我在英國《金融時報》的同事吉迪恩?拉赫曼(Gideon Rachman)所寫的,“懷舊民族主義”是一條主線,貫穿著英國退歐陣營的“拿回控制權”(Take Back Control)、唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的“讓美國再次偉大起來”(Make America Great Again)以及弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)重新宣示俄羅斯實力的努力。只有一種切實可行的反制策略,法國總統候選人埃馬紐埃爾?馬克龍(Emmanuel Macron)正在今春的選舉中嘗試這種策略:推銷未來。