Europe’s Immigration Problem: People, Not Accounting Units
Hungary's Prime minister-elect Peter Magyar delivers a press statement in front of the Presidential Sandor Palace in Budapest on April 15, 2026 after meeting with Hungary's President and other parliamentary parties, three days after general elections in Hungary. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images
It is perfectly normal and healthy that in an electoral democracy a government should be voted out of office after 16 years in power. One of the complaints often heard in such democracies is that “they are all the same,” they being members of the political class of whatever political party.
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
