Far-right political victories and prospective governments in Europe and the United States are stimulating a search for historical precedents and explanatory frameworks of these movements. That should make it easier to understand and challenge them. Liberals and centrists shocked by the sudden intrusion of such forces provide weak accounts of why they have happened. Their world of market-driven globalisation, opening borders, regulatory oversight and legal separation of governing powers is taken so much for granted that they are perplexed about why it is now under attack so vehemently. Emmanuel Macron personifies this trend among political leaders. His sudden calling of...