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4 July 2016

The politics of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will dominate the world post-Brexit

Unless we pull ourselves together, the sworn enemies of enlightenment will win. 

By Bernard-Henri Lévy

(Photo By Getty)

Brexit marks a victory not of the people but of populism. Not of democracy but of demagogy. 

It is a victory of the hard right over the moderate right and of the radical over the liberal left. 

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