#populism — Public Fediverse posts

She's now talking about #InformationWarfare and #Disinformation attacks. What to do when foreign influence operation try to distort democratic debate?
What to do about the rise of #populist and anti-European powers?

Last year the #EU opened the "Centre for Democratic Resilience."

Speaking of democratic resilience, you can have your say in the online policy debate about that here: https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/online-debate-democratic-resilience_en

#Democracy #FckAfD #populism

#Gena and #FakeNews on toxic social media platforms attempting (and pehaps succeding) in driving the narrative to suit her inflated ego and misguided social conscience. Is the electorate gullible enough? Naive enough? Scary questions if you ask me.

https://theklaxon.com.au/sham-hanson-news-sites-push-rinehart-propaganda/

#AusPol #PHON #FarRightPolitics #Populism #PoliticalPropaganda

We need schools to teach children to actively seek out complexity. When anyone ever offers simple solutions (even left leaning populists), our instinct should be to add complexity to it. We live in an incredibly complicated and intertwined world and few things are purely bad, but many things have downsides which need to be discussed and regulated. Let's cultivate complexity!
#politics #democracy #culture #populism

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms https://www.byteseu.com/2363351/ #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #Hungary #HungaryNews #Liberalism #midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #populism #Trumpism #ViktorOrban

Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms

Francis Fukuyama has held up Péter Magyar’s landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán as a model for Americans seeking…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #hír #hungary #Hungarynews #liberalism #Magyarország #Midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #populism #Trumpism #ViktorOrbán
https://www.europesays.com/3249434/

https://www.europesays.com/people/226377/ Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #Hungary #HungaryNews #liberalism #Midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #Populism #trumpism #ViktorOrbán

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

Péter Magyar’s 100 Days in Office – The Standing of the New Government

Can the new prime minister move beyond the politics of permanent campaigning? The first 100 days have shown…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #democracy #elections #ElectionsinHungary #Fidesz #hír #hungary #Magyar #Magyarország #populism #Pu00e9terMagyar #Tisza #ViktorOrbu00e1n
https://www.europesays.com/3198869/

https://www.europesays.com/people/191597/ Péter Magyar’s 100 Days in Office – The Standing of the New Government #Democracy #Elections #ElectionsInHungary #Fidesz #Hungary #Magyar #PeterMagyar #Populism #Pu00e9terMagyar #Tisza #ViktorOrbu00e1n

Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.

* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction

"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."

World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation

* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.

"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."

"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

The government must be the trustee for the little man because no one else will be. The powerful can usually help themselves — and frequently do.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1955-10-29), “The Crisis in Agriculture,” Democratic Rally, Duluth, Minnesota

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #commonman #commonpeople #generalwelfare #government #hoipolloi #littleguy #littlepeople #power #powerful #publicpolicy #selfaggrandizement #trustee #populism

🤦🏻‍♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/

#politics #europe #denmark #populism #centrism

Donald Trump’s bullying is irritating his European populist chums.

French and German nationalists are not happy with America’s grab for Greenland.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260120-donald-trumps-bullying-is-irritating-his-european-populist-chums?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #FarRight #Trump #Greenland #Politics #Populism #Nationalism #ViktorOrban #MarineLePen #JordanBardella #GeorgiaMeloni #AliceWeidel #France #Germany #Italy #Hungary

Sunday, January 18, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-18-2026/

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

Why rejoice in the misfortune of others

One way to feel my social status improving is if someone else lowers theirs. And so, when I see someone mess up in ways that cause them to lose face, and thus lose social status, I can feel a burst of satisfaction as my own status is raised, at no cost to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

#joy #resentment #selfEsteem #rivalry #Schadenfreude #humiliation #sociality #normalcy #morals #sociology #philosophy #criticalThinking #psychology #populism #unitarian #unitarianism #communitarianism #farRight #family #patriarchy #tradition #values

»#Fakepopulism: How #Trump’s #billionaireadmin serves the rich, and hurts everyone else.« https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/30/populism-trump-rich-billionaires-taxes/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»#Fakepopulism: How #Trump’s #billionaireadmin serves the rich, and hurts everyone else.« https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/30/populism-trump-rich-billionaires-taxes/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»#Fakepopulism: How #Trump’s #billionaireadmin serves the rich, and hurts everyone else.« https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/30/populism-trump-rich-billionaires-taxes/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

A good analysis of the jump in right-wing tech bro support for Trump and the fault lines that exist between the neoreactionary and MAGA movements.

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But despite its impact on the current Trump regime, neoreactionary politics is not MAGA politics, as the tagline to James Pogue’s 2022 Vanity Fair article noted. The key reason is that neoreaction is not populist. The movement to Make America Great Again, Trump’s political base, is a classic example of right-wing populism, i.e., a movement that combines calls to intensify oppression with twisted forms of anti-elitism. MAGA politics is about defending privilege and attacking those who are seen as threatening it from below, but it also feeds on people’s sense of disempowerment, of being beaten down by a few people on top, a belief that those in power have betrayed “we the people” and must be stripped of their positions.

Neoreactionaries, by contrast, believe firmly that elites should rule and “the people” (Nick Land’s “howling irrational mob”) should not. Since Trump first entered the 2016 presidential race, MAGA aimed to mobilize a mass movement to overturn the political establishment, liberal and conservative alike. This initiative included not just electoral campaigns but also broad-based organizing and physical protests that culminated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in hopes of overturning the 2020 election results by force. But neoreactionaries dismiss the whole idea of a popular uprising. As Yarvin wrote in June 2024, “Charlottesville [the 2017 Unite the Right rally] and January 6 were the last lame breaths of what John Adams called ‘mobocracy’ in America.” What Yarvin envisioned wasn’t a popular uprising, but rather to “hack” the system in order to break it.

https://threewayfight.org/the-doge-and-the-neoreactionaries/

#fascism #Trump #MAGA #USPol #Musk #Thiel #Yarvin #NRx #neoreactionary #elitism #populism

And here is an excellent talk by H. Mark Schwartz about the connection between intellectual monopolies and rise of far right populism. With intellectual monopolies the physical production is split off into separate companies. These companies managing production in turn subcontract their labor. The end result is that the intellectual monopolies can control the whole chain and capture the profits, but they do not share the gains with the wider economy. This reduces the economic fortunes of most people. For the people who expected to do better, this is infuriating.
https://youtu.be/wLirFMbaSxo?si=lifpfbo1_djWoHHK
#intellectualMonopoly
#populism
3/3

Nobel prize for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
500 years of European colonialism, extractivism and the resource curse

"Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs against a view that links economic development to geographic factors. Instead, we argue that the reversal reflects changes in the institutions resulting from European colonialism. The European intervention appears to have created an “institutional reversal” among these societies, meaning that Europeans were more likely to introduce institutions encouraging investment in regions that were previously poor. This institutional reversal accounts for the reversal in relative incomes. We provide further support for this view by documenting that the reversal in relative incomes took place during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and resulted from societies with good institutions taking advantage of the opportunity to industrialize."
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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 117, Issue 4, November 2002, Pages 1231–1294 (PDF>)
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/reversal-of-fortune.pdf
#colonialism #extractivism #SettlerSociety #IndigenousPeoples #SocialRelations #PE #economics #democracy #RuleOfLaw #AuthoritarianRegime #populism #corruption #goverance #reforms #distrust #UnevenDevelopment #democracy #institutions #ResourceCurse #nobel

#BangkokPost #editorial
" #Thaksin's proposal sounds good on a pamphlet, but it #needsmorework to ensure #fairness for all. The use of #publicfunds to fulfil an #unreasonable #populist #policy where only certain groups will benefit is #inappropriate. The era of #populism, in which #politicians just make big #promises without showing clear plans & a source of funding, should be over. Populist policies must come with thorough #explanations of where the money will come from"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2853578/train-plan-needs-detail

#BangkokPost #editorial
" #Thaksin's proposal sounds good on a pamphlet, but it #needsmorework to ensure #fairness for all. The use of #publicfunds to fulfil an #unreasonable #populist #policy where only certain groups will benefit is #inappropriate. The era of #populism, in which #politicians just make big #promises without showing clear plans & a source of funding, should be over. Populist policies must come with thorough #explanations of where the money will come from"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2853578/train-plan-needs-detail

»As the #UltraWealthy Rally Behind #Trump, Republicans Pitch #FakePopulism to #Workers: Trump’s allies courted the working class with hollow, populist rhetoric at the RNC.« https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rnc-economy-workers-wealthy-donors-1235061192/?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»As the #UltraWealthy Rally Behind #Trump, Republicans Pitch #FakePopulism to #Workers: Trump’s allies courted the working class with hollow, populist rhetoric at the RNC.« https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rnc-economy-workers-wealthy-donors-1235061192/?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»As the #UltraWealthy Rally Behind #Trump, Republicans Pitch #FakePopulism to #Workers: Trump’s allies courted the working class with hollow, populist rhetoric at the RNC.« https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rnc-economy-workers-wealthy-donors-1235061192/?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

Amazing. These extremist politicians inflict inestimable harm —and, somehow, they voted for him, support him

NYTimes: Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/world/americas/argentina-economy-inflation-javier-milei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled #stockholmsyndrom #Argentina #populism

A country neighboring Europe, where you'll find signs in front of stores saying "Jews not allowed", and a country, where a member of the ruling AKP is appreciated for publicly revealing, that he's praying for Hitler's soul, topping the antisemitically stinking cake by "adding that the world will find peace when it is cleansed of Jews and that the Holocaust was “unfinished.”", such a country ruled by such an aggressive, racist & imperialistic neo-Ottoman regime, absurdly financially pampered by the Union its leaders are insulting, defaming & inciting violence against, cannot become a member of the European Community for the foreseeable (far away) future.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-770853
#EU #EuropeanCommission #Europe #Israel #HamasTerrorism #HamasMassacres #Turkey #Erdogan #Antisemitism #Hitler #Holocaust #Genocide #Pogroms #ErdoganIncitement #Dagestan #Makhachkala #MakhachkalaPogrom #Racism #AntisemiticErdoganRegime #ShitSlingers #Populism #DefraudingEveryone @EU_Commission

#PolishElections #poland - Dear polish EU citizens, don’t trust these made up messages from #pis and #kaczinsky which claim that Germany and Poland are opponents. This is not at all true. Elect the party you prefer - but do not get influenced by such malicious #populism .