populism

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• How Democrats Lost the Great Plains

  by Ross Benes

  Ross Benes argues that the Democratic party has lost an entire political generation of influence in the Great Plains by forfeiting the region's legacy of farmer populism, making the Plains a Republican stronghold and a barrier to progressive legislation. 

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• SOURCE: ZNet
  11/29/2020
  

  Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The author contends, with hope, that the Trump presidency was a brief blip in the long decline of nationalistic conflict that will allow international cooperation for global challenges.

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• 11/22/2020
  

  The Devil and Mary Lease

  by Alan J. Singer

  Populist and feminist agitator Mary Lease advised farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." Her brand of hell-raising, however, included a strong current of antisemitism that needs to be widely known.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/23/2020
  

  Thomas Frank On How Populism Can Save America

  "The consensus intellectuals of the ’50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/8/2020
  

  Why Americans Fall for Grifters: A Warning From a 1957 Film

  by Jake Tapper

  Journalist Jake Tapper reflects on the prescience of the 1957 Elia Kazan/Budd Schulberg film "A Face in the Crowd", which anticipated the power of inflammatory appeals in the mass media. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/8/2020
  

  Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was (Review)

  A review of Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" argues that the author focuses on the role of nostalgia and personality in driving authoritarianism and breaking up the center-right coalition, but ignores the fact that that the center failed to deliver an improved standard of living to the broad public. 

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• 9/6/2020
  

  A Coup of "Clerqs"?: Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Anne Applebaum's new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/24/2020
  

  The Guardians: Does "The Resistance" Actually Want More Democracy, or Less?

  by Samuel Moyn

  Samuel Moyn warns that a leading Never Trump legal scholar is less concerned with how Trump might harm minorities than with how Trump might harm the image of rule by elites. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  The Origins of the Republican Party’s Plutocratic Populism

  by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

  With concentrated wealth has come unprecedented investments in politics by billionaire donors and business organizations, mostly on the right.

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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.