Britain s Populist Fantasies

Evo Morales and the Populist Paradox

I've borrowed the hackneyed old populist slogan

The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

Italy s parliament is divided among three mutually incompatible political forces, with none strong enough to rule alone. Worse, one of these forces, which won 25 of the vote, is an anti euro populist party, while another, a Euro skeptic group led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, received close to 30 support, giving anti euro parties a clear majority.

The best response to today s unholy alliance of populist racist parties is courage, determination, and clarity of position. Any alliance by mainstream conservative parties with far right forces will turn out to be a guarantee of defeat moral as well as political.

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Millions of others, however, are ill prepared for the new age. And it is their growing anxiety that is fueling the rise of identity politics, with populist leaders and movements appealing to ethnic or religious solidarity in the face of the impersonal forces of change.

Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out the ultra rich business tycoon and the clown. In the Anglo Saxon media world, Rupert Murdoch, owner of far too many newspapers, TV stations, and movie studios, is a typical populist tycoon.

Deliberately populist media efforts have succeeded in mischaracterizing security problems as well as the victims of insecurityy.

Elsewhere, populist anti European parties of the right have been gaining ground with campaigns directed against immigrants and minorities, especially Muslims. This has fueled concern that the populist bloc will be the largest in the European Parliament after next year s EU wide election.

The demagogic, populist reform of Pétion followed, during which the large properties were in the hands of senior officers.

Austerity fatigue in the periphery is clearly evident from the success of anti establishment forces in Italy s recent election large street demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, and elsewhere and now the botched bailout of Cypriot banks, which has fueled massive public anger. Throughout the periphery, populist parties of the left and right are gaining ground.

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But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

Beppe Grillo s populist Five Star Movement emerged with 25 of the popular vote the highest support for any single party. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confounding those who had forecast his political demise, re emerged at the head of a populist rightist coalition that ended up only 0.3 percentage points away from winning.

Correcting these policy failures is made more difficult by the rise of populist political forces. The National Front in France, the United Kingdom Independence Party, and far right anti immigration parties in Sweden, Denmark, and Italy are picking up votes and shutting down informed public debate on a tough policy question that has no easy answers.

There was certainly a great deal of this type of sentiment in the 1930 s, when the populist response to the Great Depression attributed it to the sinister forces of international capital. The modern version of this explanation holds that the world is changing so quickly that national security and, indeed, national identity, are under threat.

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We rejected the tendency to equate asylum seekers with criminals, even terrorists, and deplored the harmful exploitation of this confusion by certain populist elements.

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Political forces struggled for power, and there was an upturn for the armed forces.

Likewise, her invitations to the White House are being used for populist messaging. Who came over to watch the White House chef with Mrs. Obama?

There is more interest in Sarkozy s populist ideas about currency intervention and adding a new political dimension to monetary policy decisions than is commonly realized.

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