populism

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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.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  11-13-17
  

  After Trump

  by Frank Rich

  Liberals ecstatic over this month’s election must not forget: Even after this demagogue is finished, a new one will rise in his place.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  7-3-17
  

  Donald Trump’s Populism Decoded: How a Billionaire Became the Voice of the “Little People”

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  That a billionaire would assume the mantle of pitchfork populism may seem like a political and cultural oxymoron, but Trump is far more like his supporters than appearances suggest.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-27-17
  

  Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave

  As right-wing populism has roiled elections and upended politics across the West, there is one country where populists have largely failed to break through: Canada.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-18-17
  

  As Trump Drifts Away From Populism, His Supporters Grow Watchful

  President Trump has demonstrated that while he won office on a populist message, he has not consistently governed that way in the nearly 100 days in the White House.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  2-13-17
  

  Have We Figured Out Trumpism Yet?

  by Kevin Mattson

  One thing we do know: It’s not economic populism.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-27-17
  

  What Is a Populist?

  by Uri Friedman

  And is Donald Trump one?

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• 3-5-17
  

  Is Trump a Populist?

  by Finbarr Curtis

  How he compares with William Jennings Bryan, the Populist’s populist, in many contemporaries'' opinion.