populism

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Social Psychology of Popular Right-Wing Conservatism

  by Daniel Burnstein

  Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/4/2020
  

  Harsh Rhetoric Tears Us Apart — And Can Make Violence Seem Acceptable

  by Charles Holden, Zach Messitte and Jerald Podair

  The pugilistic speeches that caused Agnew’s political star to rise also eroded Americans’ bonds of empathy at a time when the nation desperately needed statesmanship.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  The Far Right Hates Liberals, Government and the Media — And Now, Quarantines

  by Timothy J. Lombardo

  Protests against social distancing measures are rooted in decades-old anger and mistrust.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/9/2020
  

  Bernie Sanders’s Campaign is Over, But His Populist Ideas Will Survive

  by Robert Mitchell

  Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  3/12/2020
  

  The Russian Historian Predicting Chaos

  by Angela Nagle

  All the way back in 2010, Turchin warned that the historical patterns were lining up to indicate a coming period of instability and violence in America, which he expected to peak in the 2020s. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Business Review
  3/16/2020
  

  What Democracy’s History Tells Us About Its Future

  In an email exchange hosted by the Harvard Business Review, Professor of Business Rebecca Henderson and Professor of History Jill Lepore discussed capitalism’s role in an increasingly populist world.

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• SOURCE: BBC History Extra
  1/21/20
  

  Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago

  by David Charlwood

  Violent uprisings in the Middle East and a populist US president vowing to put “America First”. Historian David Charlwood looks back 100 years to the global situation of 1920 and finds remarkable parallels with the present.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/16/19
  

  The Case for Populism

  by Maria Schmidt

  As citizens of a free country in the heartland of Europe, we have served as gatekeepers between East and West for a thousand years. We hope to do so for a thousand more.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/17/19
  

  The populist rewriting of Polish history is a warning to us all

  by Estera Flieger

  Thirty years after communism ended, Poland’s past is again being manipulated for political motives, this time at a museum in Gdańsk.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  July 30, 2019
  

  When we hear populism, we think Donald Trump. But we should be thinking Elizabeth Warren.

  by Gregg Cantrell

  How the left can reclaim the mantle of populism that is rightly theirs.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-27-2018
  

  For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.

  The hard-right government has accused the French of disrespect and of trying to culturally appropriate the artist in a dispute over loaning his works.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-8-2018
  

  What French populists from the ‘50s can teach us about the 'yellow vests’ roiling Paris today

  by Charles Hankla

  The Poujadist protests can shed light on today’s unrest – as well as on the many other populist movements agitating governments across the world.

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• SOURCE: news.com.au
  11-7-18 (accessed)
  

  Niall Ferguson says Trump is a populist not a fascist

  In a wide-ranging talk the historian speculated that Trump will face Kamala Harris in 2020.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-16-18 (accessed)
  

  America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare

  by Jeffrey Rosen

  The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

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• 7/8/18
  

  Tom Nichols Vents Again

  by Tom Nichols

  His target:  People who complain that rich snooty guys in suits are to blame for the resurgence of populism.

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• 4/29/18
  

  What Do Trumpism, Bannonism, Putinism, Orbánism, Erdoğanism, Xiism, Modiism, and Duterteism Have in Common?

  by Ronald Beiner

  They’re appropriating the complaints of Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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• SOURCE: The Spectator
  3-14-18
  

  ‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’

  by Nicholas Farrell

  Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between

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• SOURCE: LA Review of Books
  1-19-18
  

  Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind” helps explain Trumpism

  by Lily Geismer

  The book argues that the right has increasingly come to understand that in order to defend the old regime and preserve the power of elites they have to build alliances with the masses, and practice a form of “upside-down populism.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-17-18
  

  President Trump isn’t crazy. But he is dangerous.

  by Federico Finchelstein

  What we miss when we focus on the president's mental health.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1-14-18
  

  Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

  by Joshua Zeitz

  Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.