
Commentary / World Sep 11, 2018
The Swedish vote is another populist failure
by Leonid Bershidsky
The election was a warning to centrists to do more to integrate immigrants.
The Swedish vote is another populist failure
The election was a warning to centrists to do more to integrate immigrants.
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