While watching farmers protest in Belgium, France, Netherlands, and Germany during the early months of 2024, I was reminded of Wordsworth’s words: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!” Tom, a Flemish farmer who drove his tractor to Brussels in February to protest against proposed environmental laws, told me that the media tried to scare off the public from supporting his cause by calling his movement far right and populist. He smiled and said, “They call me a populist—fine, I’ll take that!”
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