{"id":68429,"date":"2018-11-23T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/23\/hillary-clintons-chilling-pragmatism-gives-populism-a-free-pass-nesrine-malik\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:41:37","slug":"hillary-clintons-chilling-pragmatism-gives-populism-a-free-pass-nesrine-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68429","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s chilling pragmatism gives populism a free pass | Nesrine Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling on Europe\u2019s leaders to \u2018get a handle on migration\u2019 is no counter to populists \u2013 it\u2019s more like an endorsementEver since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in 2016, she has been subject to a very particular intolerance of her insistence to stay in the public eye. Some on the right have turned her into a symbol of everything they hate, to be demonised at their rallies. Others, on the left, abhor her refusal to cede space to a newer generation, hanging in the air like a bad smell, a constant memory of the moment it all went wrong. But Hillary Clinton will not go away, and that is a very good thing. Not because she should remain on the scene, fighting the good fight against the forces of reaction, but because with every interview and public appearance she is revealing in the most helpful way the pointlessness of her politics. Related: Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/nov\/23\/hillary-clinton-populism-europe-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s chilling pragmatism gives populism a free pass | Nesrine Malik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling on Europe\u2019s leaders to \u2018get a handle on migration\u2019 is no counter to populists \u2013 it\u2019s more like an endorsementEver since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in 2016, she has been subject to a very particular intolerance of her insistence to stay in the public eye. Some on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}