A bizarre political landscape

I sense that Greece's next elections will be a bit like the first elections of 2012. Back then, the country's political and media establishment were shocked at the rise of anti-systemic parties SYRIZA, Golden Dawn and Independent Greeks (ANEL). Only a few people realized that the ruling elite had lost its political legitimacy because a big chunk of the population saw their economic status decline sharply and, in their own mind, inexplicably. For the first time, people could not find the answer on the internet, on social media, on trashy late-night talk shows or the alternative news media. Among the anti-systemic politicians of the time, Panos Kammenos and his nationalist populist ANEL were very efficient in adopting the recipe of Donald Trump, even before the US president did.

What we have now is a bizarre political scene. Most antisystemic politicians have become pretty much...