What the current surge of populism shows is that the rule of law and liberal democracy find themselves in great danger when the breadth of democratic support for their core principles begins to decrease. Both in Hungary and Poland, the populist forces relatively easily undermined the rule of law and democracy, and steered politics in a dangerous authoritarian direction. Ultimately, democratic political parties with credible political ideas and platforms offer the best hope for protection of liberal democracy. As the Western European examples show, as long as there exist credible liberal political platforms, the threat to the rule of law and democracy is not existential. While populists in Western Europe challenge certain liberal values and policies, they lack the capacity to threaten the essence of liberal democracy.

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欧洲民粹主义的种类：法治是否处于危险之中？

当前民粹主义浪潮表明，当民主对其核心原则的支持范围开始减少时，法治和自由民主会面临巨大的危​​险。在匈牙利和波兰，民粹势力都相对容易地破坏法治和民主，并朝着危险的威权主义方向操纵政治。最终，拥有可靠政治思想和平台的民主政党为保护自由民主提供了最大希望。如西欧的例子所示，只要存在可靠的自由政治平台，对法治和民主的威胁就不存在。尽管西欧的民粹主义者向某些自由主义价值观和政策提出挑战，但他们缺乏威胁自由主义民主本质的能力。