In 2017, after Emmanuel Macron bested Marine Le Pen in the French Presidential election, following on the heels of defeats for right-wing parties in the Dutch and Austrian elections, I wrote of a sense of relief that seemed to wash over an anxious European establishment. It was my view that they were utterly wrong and short-sighted to feel complacent because all the signs of unrest and discontentment were mounting.

Now, after the peoples of Sweden and Italy have both chosen right-wing parties to lead them, the cracks on what might be called the globalist façade are truly rupturing.