A Populist Revolution in Europe? Not Just Yet

On Sunday, Donald Trump-like politicians won presidential elections in two small European countries -- Bulgaria and Moldova. A populist nationalist appears poised to win the Austrian presidential election, another one leads in some Dutch polls, and similar figures in France and Italy are within a few points of the leading establishment candidate -- just far enough behind to recall Trump's pre-election poll performance.

So was Sweden's neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement right when it proclaimed during a Saturday march in Stockholm that a "world revolution" was beginning? A revival of the right is certainly in evidence. The recent developments are not the first: Local "Trumps" have already triumphed in the U.K., Poland and Hungary, and, just beyond the European Union's borders, in Turkey. But the EU, for all its well-publicized flaws, may be better-designed than the U.S. to deal with this constructively.