#Populism

Excellent review of The Light That Failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes by Esther Kovats & Katerina Smejkalovahttps://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/europe/article/show/east-central-europes-revolt-against-imitation-4205/A thread 1. Krastev &
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What will be the impact of Trump's 4 years, Biden's arrival and COVID-19 on global politics, over the next five years or so? A few thoughts in a thread. @CER_EU
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Do you remember the fleeting moment when we hoped the Queen would refuse what was obviously a bogus request for prorogation? But no, she complied. The BBC is servile &
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1/ As someone who, ahem, covers *the realignment*, the opposite will occur.A Trump win would validate populist arguments about the GOP, and opens a lane for a candidate who can
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Why the Golden Dawn verdict is important, but not enough. 1/ They were an outlier in European fascism, trying to combine the legal, parliamentary party with squadrismo (and major organised
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First keynote is Elżbieta Korolczuk on opposition to gender in academia and beyond. Looking forward to this. #kjønnsforskningNÅ Korolczuk, a sociologist, says that she thought resistance to gender was only
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It definitely matters that the Communist Party rules China instead of some other group, but not as much--or for the right reasons--as China hawks assert.  /1 A Populist, militarist regime
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There’s a lot of gloating today directed at Trump as a specifically infuriating individual. I think we should keep in mind that Trump is partly the American incarnation of the
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I've been reluctant to compare people who cycle and walk to an oppressed minority because it sounds disrespectful to people whose lives are profoundly affected by discrimination, but there are
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Thinking about how the Nazis made it basically impossible to reclaim the symbology they appropriated or indeed their own Hugo Boss uniform contributions to fashion.When I'm done feeling sad about
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"The [US] political system is not salvageable. It will be overthrown in a mass uprising...or vast swaths of the globe will become uninhabitable & the rich will feed like ghouls
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The Oregon state election of 1922 was known as "the Klan election." That election elevated Kaspar K. Kubli to the speaker of the house where he led a delegation that
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"Trump failed because he picked bad people" is an insufficient explanation. In truth, he failed because his so-called populist project was a lie. He never wanted to drain the swamp,
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1/ I wrote previously about how I fully believe in #Bitcoin as a pastor here: https://twitter.com/MatHanz/status/1226008639216984066. I'm also halfway through an MSSW program @TexasSteveHicks and want to speak from
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I’m not sure where this thread will go. But I want to explain how I’ve transitioned from a politically apathetic person to an anti-neoliberal and climate alarmist. Please bear with
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A perfect example of how this guy is completely unserious, a scammer if not a dummy, picking off credulous "populists" one by one, proving mostly that he is smarter than
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