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    Clinton, Blair, Renzi: why we lost, and how to fight back

    Centrist heavyweights on the global rise of rightwing populism, and what can be done to stop it
    by Patrick Wintour in New York, London and Rome Nov 22, 2018 5 minutes
    Clinton was left dumbfounded by her 2016 defeat to Donald Trump, while Brexit has upended Blair’s legacy. Composite: The Guardian Design Team

    Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Matteo Renzi: three of rightwing populism’s greatest scalps.

    Clinton admits she was left dumbfounded by her 2016 election defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. Renzi’s centre-left party was defeated this year after a surge in the anti-establishment vote in Italy, a country he calls “the incubator” of populism.

    Blair may not have lost at the ballot box, but his legacy, particularly on Europe, was upended in the Brexit referendum.

    All three are shunned by sections of their own party that accuse them of being responsible for the failure of the centre-left to offer a sufficiently radical alternative.

    But all three are still thinking deeply about rightwing populism – its causes and the threat it poses – the mistakes of the centre left, including their own, and how modern politics appears to be mobilising resentment towards a perceived elite.

    This much emerges from conversations with each, conducted in October and November,

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