In the United States, this mood first emerged several years ago, fueling the rise of the Tea Party and now enabling the splenetic presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and other Republican candidates who promise to seal America off from the twenty-first century. (The promise is to some extent literal: By building walls along the country’s northern and southern borders, the candidates would defend the American dream from outside contamination.)
从希腊激进左翼联盟到法国国民阵线，民粹主义者鼓励欧洲选民相信由偏见和无知的留恋构成的一个虚拟现实。几年前这种情绪在美国的首次出现助长了茶党崛起，现在又导致了唐纳德·特朗普和承诺将美国与21世纪隔绝的其他共和党候选人怨气冲天的总统竞选。（某种程度上这是个实际承诺：通过在美国南北边境线上修建隔离墙，候选人将捍卫美国梦想不受外来污染。）