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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.