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Trump’s polarising appeal leaves European populists in a tight spot | Europe | The Guardian

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

Very simple, what will it be? Treason and submission to a foreign tyrant or support to your own country and facing the real dangers we are facing... a watershed moment.

Who financed you might be the right question?
What shall it be, nationalism or treason?

The Guardian · Trump’s polarising appeal leaves European populists in a tight spotBy Patrick Wintour

Today in “Samuel Pepys’ Diary Reimagined”:

“[…] far too many elections have been rigged by far-right powers who always use fear as the key ingredient to their propaganda. And fear, as neurosciences teach us, makes humans stupider.”

babumenos.com/SPDR/#a2025-02-2

babumenos.comSamuel Pepys’ Diary ReimaginedA contemporary diary of current every-day events large and small, inspired by the work of 17th century writer and politician Samuel Pepys.

"In the early 20th century, the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset warned that such resentment would eventually become the enemy of talent and ability. “The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different,” he wrote in 1930, “everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” Trump and Musk not only feel this same impulse; they have harnessed it for their personal use.

Eventually, such attacks run out of steam when the costs begin to accumulate. No matter how many times Stalin told his scientists to plant wheat in the snow so that it could evolve to grow in the winter, the wheat (which had no political allegiances) died. Today, vaccine refusal might seem like a brave stand against white-jacketed overlords—until your children are stricken with measles or whooping cough.

Modern societies, as Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in public service. The first step in containing the damage is to see Trump’s and Musk’s goals for DOGE clearly: It is a project rooted in resentful arrogance, and its true objective is not better government, but destruction."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Atlantic · The Death of Government ExpertiseBy Tom Nichols
#USA#Trump#Musk
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🚨New article 👀

In "Voting green or right-wing populist: Ideological poles of a new cleavage?", Clara Dilger shows that the cleavage between green- and right-wing populist voters does not extend across all attitudes, nor countries, suggesting green and right-wing populist parties are not always complete opposites.

OA👉 doi.org/10.1177/00016993241311

#sociology #politicalscience #voting #rightwing #populism #greenparty #academicchatter #academicjournals
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Important research investigating politics and misinformation used 32M tweets from politicians in 26 countries, spanning 6 years and several election periods. Radical-right populism was the STRONGEST determinant of those who spread misinformation.

#FarRight #Populism #Misinformation #Politics

When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries - Petter Törnberg, Juliana Chueri, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

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@benroyce
The UK sees what is happening in the US and will follow in their footsteps by voting for #ReformUK to be the next government, and be led by the same gang who sold them #Brexit.

The same malaise of gullibility and stupidity afflicts the English voters.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/3/ni

Al Jazeera · Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform Party leads in UK poll for first timeBy Al Jazeera
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3/ Both Hitler and Trump share a style of incoherent, repetitive, and aggressive language. They vilify perceived enemies—be it Jews, communists, or immigrants—and offer simplistic, violent solutions to complex issues. Sound familiar? #Populism #Rhetoric

"I’ve often found the ubiquity of “populism” in post-2016 discourse to be unhelpful — in part because it’s tended to refer more to a particular kind of political style than to anything more concrete (I went into this in an essay for The Walrus back a few years ago). It’s precisely this quality, however, that attracts Lake to the term: populism might imply a rebellion of some kind pitting “the people against the powerful” but, beyond that, the exact contours of those categories (and others related to them) in effect become a choose your own adventure — a question of attitude, affect, and outlook rather than wealth, social location, or institutional power. In the reactionary imagination, terms like “populism”, “elites”, and “the ruling class” connote vaguely-defined dispositions more than they do coherent analytical categories; their boundaries endlessly malleable; their foundations more cultural than material.

It’s a nifty sleight of hand, in that it allows conservatives to attach the form and rhetoric of class politics to more or less whatever they like while effectively taking the politics out of them. And thus, in one fell swoop, tech oligarchs sitting at the very nexus of corporate power can become the faces of a “populist moment”; a billionaire president ringing in his second term a tribune of the hardworking masses.

The flipside, of course, is the avowedly anti-populist posture taken by so much of the liberal mainstream since 2016."

lukewsavage.com/p/the-populism

Luke Savage · The populism of foolsBy Luke Savage

"After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in the virtues of markets and competition, seemed to have triumphed. Communism had been defeated – and Friedrich Hayek, the spiritual father of neoliberal economics, had just about lived to see it. But in the decades that followed, Hayek’s disciples knew that they had a problem. The rise of social movements, from civil rights and feminism to environmentalism, were now proving roadblocks in the road to freedom, nurturing a culture of government dependency, public spending, political correctness and special pleading. Neoliberals needed an antidote.

In this illuminating new book, historian Quinn Slobodian reveals how, from the 1990s onwards, neoliberal thinkers turned to nature, in an attempt to roll back social changes and to return to a hierarchy of gender, race and cultural difference. He explores how these thinkers drew on the language of science, from cognitive psychology to genetics, in order to embed the idea of ‘competition’ ever deeper into social life, and to advocate cultural homogeneity as essential for markets to truly work. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists that would become known as the alt-right."

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