#Populism

Jonathan Kay

jonkay

I'm not sure the Trump phenom is a mystery. Mostly 2 things:(1) middle class econ despair due to automation, outsourcing, etc. (Which @BernieSanders also decried)(2) revulsion at snobbish, hashtag leftism

Melinda Byerley

MJB_SF

Lately, I think a lot about how modern business management principles were perfected by slave owners (per @CC_Rosenthal “accounting for slavery”) And wonder if capitalism can ever be unbound from

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

Many of you are undoubtedly shocked by the election outcome tonight. Our American neighbours will endure 4 more years of brash, incompetent populism. Can it happen in Canada? I couldn't

Megan Metcalfe

MetcalfeMegan

If you're socially inclined 2 leftism, I understand you. I was the same way. I wanted life to be fair, to help the marginalized and impoverished, I wanted to do

Hunter Wallace

MisterBlackPill

Why I didn't for @realDonaldTrumpA thread 1. The 2016 election was exciting mainly because it seemed like True Conservatism was being replaced with something called "National Populism." Now, we know

Mattia Zulianello 🦁

Zulianello_M

#Populism #Salvini's League: the last mass-party in Italy. As a researcher for the @_PiAP project, I am working on the League. Few days ago La Repubblica published an article

Michelle B. Young 💛🐝

MichelleBYoung1

THREADI’m back! So the W Lefties flagged my Eldridge Cleaver tweets & I’ve been in TwitMo. Most people who read those tweets know they didn’t cross the line, they were

Pedro L. Gonzalez

emeriticus

Some people are wondering why Trump underperformed with white voters, including white working class men. One explanation is that the focus on pandering over economic populism pushed them away.https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/02/pandering-los

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

Fascists are not competent and the belief that they are competent is itself part of fascist ideologyIt is the nature of fascist ideology and how it defines "competence" that, in

Barry Block

Mf144Simon

Why are Gamers Called Reactionaries? (A thread)If you look at mainstream Twitter discourse, you'd think gamers are Ben Shapiro-watching racist misogynists who love dunking on libs for no reason other

Wallace Alexander

historicalpolls

Okay last shot at what I’m trying to describe: the right wing of the Democratic Party This ideology is excessively patriotic without being jingoistic. It is not highly jingoistic, though

©️as Mudde 😷

CasMudde

This is what happens when you minimize importance of far right ideology in storming of Capitol. Articles suggests financial trouble caused extremism rather than vice versa. #ShortThread https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/10/cap

Blair Nathan

Blair_A_Nathan

I should add a corollary to this adage:If you’re going to get in trouble for the right reasons, you should make a point not to get into any more trouble

Jeff Lees

Leesplez

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh. I certainly don't think that was a good thing for me, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't influence me in

Dave's Not Here

Weirddave0

This. I like Trump, generally, not for his cult of personality but because I think he's done a pretty good job, all things considered, especially in the face of a

Frank Bowman

FOBowman3

1/10 Those looking past Trump shld watch floor speech by Sen Josh Hawley @HawleyMO on Bostock opinion.https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4887276/user-clip-sen-hawley-speech-june-16-2020. For law nerds, headline is that Josh declares conservativ

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