#POPULISM

Euro Bureau of Literaturo

BeauroOf

Populism isn’t about giving people what they want, it’s about giving them what they need. Anti-populist sentiment of the kind we so often see is really a hatred for the

Chris Pope

CPopeHC

The inability of "populism" to advance a coherent normative conception of the public good seems to dismay @DouthatNYT here, but the essence of populism is a refusal to do so.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/trump-hawley-

Tactical Phase Lomez

L0m3z

I get the sense that much of the dysfunction in right wing discourse is an intellectual class who on paper broadly support right wing populism but in practice are embarrassed

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Why does Trump deny the legitimacy of the election? Partly (largely) it's about ego. But it's also about his politics. Populism relies on the idea that the majority is being

Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA

BrandondelPozo

Populism is never sufficient justification for regimes that govern all citizens. It doesn't take pluralism & liberalism seriously. It relies on a majoritarianism that routinely tramples minority rights. Bureaucracies that

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

You need to read this great piece by @RuleandRuin about how the GOP got where it is.You should read it because it answers the important questions.1. What happened?2. How could

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

Imagine being the Trudeau government. They worked hard to give Canadians a real chance to weather COVID with minimal personal risk and now they have to sit back and watch

Dr Mia Brett, PhD

QueenMab87

A thread on populism because apparently no one knows what it is /1 Populism sees "the people" as a homogenous group who is inherently good fighting against "the elite" or

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

Well, someone had to say it. The way the Extremely Online Left was treating this affair as a socialist revolution was deeply dispiriting. This excellent analysis shows how the left

Aurelien Mondon

aurelmondon

One of the perverse effects of the populist hype is that it equates different types of anti-elitist politicsSince far right conspiracies are the most covered in our public discourse, it

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

3 days ago I suggested Trump's ploy was dangerous, irresponsible & would "legitimise loonies". In National Populism, we argued that Trump was closer to a distinct American populism than fascism.

Ben Stanley

BDStanley

As someone less sceptical about the utility of populism as a concept, but who shares Art's misgivings about the empirical and normative consequences of its misuse, my take-home was "We

kaitlin, holy RINO batman

thefactualprep

Some thoughts:1.) Ossoff and Warnock were dumb Democrat candidates. Ffs, Warnock took a picture with a puppy and libs practically orgasmed over it. Be serious people please. 2.) The GOP

Jeremy Singer

jeremylsinger

For @josc_official's special issue on Populism and School Choice, I wrote about populism as a "discursive frame" and school choice politics in the U.S. Please give it a read and

Hyon S Chu

hyonschu

Trust in government is at a serious low right now, and both sides of the aisle are hoping that "their team" will come and rescue them. But that's putting hope

Wolfgang Hutter

WolfgangHutter2

I just recently mentioned Ben Tillman in a tweet and I think its a good time to recommend two books on him. I could do an extremely long thread on

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