How did they manage this? How did Europe’s governing elites get away with it? His answer: they pulled it off by focusing on new horizons, so it looked like they had moved on and left the old problems behind. In reality, they rather ignored most of those problems and left them unsolved, by choosing a new narrative and drawing attention to future developments and opportunities.
The real new story distracting us from the current crisis mood, then, had better be about what Europe and its member states really need.
The revolutions happened because of a bunch of famines across the continent, and a massive upsurge in nationalism.
For most of the places, the revolutions made the lives of the citizens worse for decades.
Not only is 2024 not really like 1848, these aren’t the kind of revolutions you want. Things aren’t going to get better by staging a coup.