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Populism in power emboldens the previously tiny, marginal extreme right. Many far-right leaders flirt with extremists, notes Mudde: Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro praises military government, Trump retweets alt-right trolls, and India’s ruling Hindu-nativist BJP party is close to the violent paramilitary group RSS.
Under populism, journalists give the extreme right unaccustomed publicity, including admiring profiles of “hipster fascists”. This helps extreme-right ideas go mainstream. The extremist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory — which holds that “the elite” (often Jewish) are replacing “the people” with immigrants — radicalises voters.
After all, “the people” must either fight back or disappear. And the extreme right puts the frighteners on liberals and immigrants through hooligan rallies, death threats, shooting sprees in Christchurch and El Paso, and political murders (of British Remainer Jo Cox and German Christian Democrat Walter Lübcke).
Populism in power emboldens the previously tiny, marginal extreme right. Many far-right leaders flirt with extremists, notes Mudde: Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro praises military government, Trump retweets alt-right trolls, and India’s ruling Hindu-nativist BJP party is close to the violent paramilitary group RSS.
Under populism, journalists give the extreme right unaccustomed publicity, including admiring profiles of “hipster fascists”. This helps extreme-right ideas go mainstream. The extremist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory — which holds that “the elite” (often Jewish) are replacing “the people” with immigrants — radicalises voters.
After all, “the people” must either fight back or disappear. And the extreme right puts the frighteners on liberals and immigrants through hooligan rallies, death threats, shooting sprees in Christchurch and El Paso, and political murders (of British Remainer Jo Cox and German Christian Democrat Walter Lübcke).
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I called the GOP error of embracing populism back in the olden days--i.e., Obama's first term. You were busy repeating seventh grade, of course, but some of the other girls were on the Shed at the time.