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In the European Union and the United States, but also in many other countries, populist and nationalist movements are often seen as one of the greatest threats to the state’s democratic constitution and its politics. From Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro to Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States and the authoritarian governments initiated by Jarosław Kaczyński and Viktor Orbán in the young democracies of Poland and Hungary, what they all have in common is a nationalist rhetoric that, in the name of the people, rails against enemies inside and outside the country and seeks to delegitimize the liberal social …