#POPULISM

Asel Doolotkeldieva

ADoolotkeldieva

My preliminary exploration of the pro-Japarov base, #populism a la Kyrgyz, shows quite a diverse picture of backgrounds and arguments:- there is a 'working' class without work at home (migrants,

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

Populism is politically highly effective. The SNP have been masters of choosing which interests to placate and which to challenge. But when populism hits an immovable object like a pandemic,

John Hayward

Doc_0

One big long-term, and long-running, problem for the GOP is that it still has no idea how to harness populist energy, and no idea how to fight back when Democrats

cadéyrn

Cadeyrnn

Some brief thoughts about rising inequality in both China and America and how it ties into the Sino-American Cold War: (1/?) China and America may be rivals right now, but

Aaron Winter

aaronzwinter

This not only perpetuates a now well debunked claim & narrative about the white working class/left behind, but that about Trump/ism/land. That's a bubble & distraction from real systemic inequalities,

Bob Rae

BobRae48

The struggle between the values of democracy, pluralism, and the rule of law, and authoritarian populism is playing out in many different places in the world today. In some countries,

corey robin

CoreyRobin

I should add that THOUGH THIS NEEDN'T BE THE CASE, one of the big problems of the fascism discourse, because it is so focused on things like right-wing populism and

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

It's surprising that anyone could look at the campaign Biden just ran and miss the degree to which it actually did internalize and act on the need to disarm Trump's

Jesse Brenneman

Jesse_Brenneman

To be a little more thoughtful on my previous point: when a politician says they don't like "politics" people tend to understand they mean pettiness, insincerity, power playing, etc, etc.

David Atkins

DavidOAtkins

It's true that Trumpism is all about racism, sexism & bigotry. It's not true that his base can be persuaded by socialism.But--and this is big--Trump does have something that Pat

Gary Koekemoer

Gary22k

Expect the pattern to repeatIn the desperate search for relevance post Trump the populism enablers will trawl Pres Biden’s comments for gotcha soundbites. Ignoring context & know-howIt’s a doubt-merchant top

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

This profile of Josh Hawley, which highlights his supposedly “ferocious populism” and quotes somebody calling him a “true populist,” barely discusses his policy positions, which on ACA, taxes, minimum wage

Pedro L. Gonzalez

emeriticus

1. The right needs to avoid returning to the GOP/conservative outrage trap, i.e., "support us to stop socialism/Democrat racism!"2. Trump needs to be separated from the right because all he

Taniel

Taniel

Georgia is transformed.And this is not just happening in *federal* elections & policy.Yes, the state is run by the GOP, still. But locally, just since Nov., there've been huge flips

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

Itmechr3

So this interview's really interesting in retrospect, I think Graeber got Trump's relation to empire completely wrong because he ignored the implications of his own most important point, which is

Julia Azari

julia_azari

I want to piggyback on Hans' thread her to think about the implications and implicit populism of these endeavors, though. I don't think it's the intent, but the diner interview

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