Indeed, populism moves in cycles. Populists come to power promising “to clean house,” but once they move in and become identified with the house and all its flaws, they fall back on clientelism and state capture by the ruling parties (as we are now seeing in Poland) rather than becoming more radical.
欧盟也许能够学会与这些民粹主义者和平共处，因为这是解决问题的唯一方案。事实上，民粹主义者有自己固定的行为周期。他们带着“清理议员队伍”的承诺进驻议会，但一旦被议会和议会的缺陷所同化，他们就会重新回归到为执政党充当代理的角色（正如我们目前在波兰看到的那样），而不会变得更为偏激。