
Salazar’s Legacy: Patriot Moderniser or Obscurantist Dictator?—Historian Tom Gallagher
“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”

“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”

Portugal’s post-revolutionary malaise is a warning to the West. The Carnation Revolution promised freedom but, through left-wing cultural hegemony and the destruction of national capacity, delivered dependence, parochialism, and poverty.

I knew that Portugal—the great Portugal of the Discoveries and the Empire—was over.

Perhaps the time has come for Portugal to recover its lost memory, to restore dignity to thousands of forgotten victims, and to honour its heroes.

After fifty years of ‘restoring democracy’ in Portugal, the people are turning against globalisation.

Chega managed to host the largest demonstration ever against a foreign head of state—and, in another first, secured unity among disparate factions of the Portuguese Right, which usually compete rather than cooperate.