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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

Sweden faces critical election on Sunday

Sweden is set to hold an election on Sunday that will be pivotal in shaping the cou…
#Sweden #Sverige #SE #Europe #Europa #EU #ECR #farright #generalelection #GustavGellerbrant #interference #JimmieÅkesson #LEADERSHIP #MagdalenaAndersson #ModerateParty #NATO #NicholasAylott #nyheter #populism #Right-wingextremism #Russia #SocialDemocrats #sweden #swedendemocrats #Ukraine #ulfkristersson #white-supremacism #ZethIsaksson
https://www.europesays.com/3246221/

To understand how the political monster is born and the process of eroding of democracy is to witness the subsequent skill of masquerade performed by any political party which vehemently, to ride free on the last three seats of a train which is heading to a destructive world, for vanity or for folly.

#Politics #Democracy #Populism #Opportunism #Humanity #Germany #RadicalFoolishness #FarRight #Fascism #Drama

Americans are having to hide receiving basic healthcare like vaccines (not to mention abortions.) This sounds like the underground railroad that used to run when slavery was legal to help people escape. Unbelievable. #giftArticle #populism
https://wapo.st/4ha2Ccj

Marine Le Pen is campaigning. She thrives in campaigning. Judicial problems are likely to come again in early 2027 but there is only 22% of Yes in a poll (by Cevipof) to the question: "Do you think politicians are honest?". French citizens routinely favour sentenced politicians if popular. So we may expect populism to grow and prosper in France up to the presidential election in May 2027.

Meanwhile the government supports brutalisation and shows that check and balance are a problem: the minister champions a law project to change the current law whereby a police officer who uses his weapon must prove that his or her shooting was necessary and proportionate.

Meanwhile the government makes military ceremonies enter schools: (fr) https://blogs.mediapart.fr/b-girard/blog/070726/patriotisme-obligatoire-l-education-nationale-ouvre-ses-portes-l-extreme-droite

#populism #patriotism #nationalism #Lepenisation #Marine #LePen #brutalisation #police #stateViolence #education #Macron #France #FrPol #FrPolitics #FrenchPol #FrenchPolitics #justice #values #Rightward

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future
#Canada #Politics #PublicService #Government #Economy #PublicPolicy #MarkCarney #StateCapacity #PublicTrust #CivilService #Governance #Taxpayers #Trade #Leadership #Federal #Populism
https://the-14.com/canadians-not-confident-public-service-is-prepared-for-the-future/

The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

1. The sociotechnical transformation of AI. It’s not simply that the technology is improving, it’s that the space for reflexivity is diminishing because the burden of articulation in chatbots is going down, inline automation tools are being built into everything and wearable AI blurs the boundary between human and technology.
2. The political economy of the bubble. Either the investment bubble will burst, ranging from a ‘correction’ through to a systemic crisis, or the big AI labs will go to IPO. In either case there will be a new attention on business fundamentals and likely many firms getting destroyed in the process. It means that current offers aren’t stable (particularly from smaller startups) and that current pricing models will without a doubt change significantly.
3. The political economy of higher education. In the UK context there’s a financial crisis in the sector which is going to get progressively worse. If we’re moving towards a post-pandemic economy defined by ecological and economic volatility globally then higher education will be under structural attack. It will be very difficult to reopen funding settlements while degree-based models contingent on the expectation of economic advantage will rapidly struggle if degrees no longer offer any advantage

What do I think follows from these for what universities do under present conditions?

• We can’t lock in reliably until the post-crash/IPO pricing models are much clearer than they are now. Otherwise we’re embedding products for we can reasonably expect the prices to be ratcheted up a few years down the line.
• The prospect for securing the existing assessment system is extremely limited in the medium term and the long term. It’s not going to be possible to separate out technological practice from non-technological practice in the manner which assessment security presupposes. This means that we urgently need to begin working towards assessment reform.
• The manner in which we respond to the first two challenges will be shaped by the financial and political pressures the sector is under. A dash for productivity through automation risks locking in unreliable system and incurring much greater costs later, as well as further undermining assessment integrity in a way which accelerates the declining (perceived) value of our degrees. A failure to address assessment integrity (and to be seen to do so) furthermore hands ammunition to critics of the sector for whom ‘ChatGPT degrees’ will figure alongside ‘woke degrees’ as economc criticism fuses with culture war criticism.

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

@Jorsh

#Jingoism #MAGA #christiannationalism #Fascism #Populism #cultism

🔱 How to Overturn an Oligarchy

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-overturn-an-oligarchy

#politics #oligarchy #monopoly #capitalism #economicpower #populism #corruption #unfair #inequality #activism

Czechia election: The spectre of populism returns.

The Czech Republic could face instability after the upcoming parliamentary election.

Although the right-wing populist party of ex-PM Andrej Babiš is well ahead in the polls, it is not expected to get a majority.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251002-czechia-election-the-spectre-of-populism-returns?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#CzechRepublic #Politics #Elections #Czechia #Populism #AndrejBabis #PetrFiala #PetrPavel #Russia #Disinformation

BestoftheLeft #1736: "Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://bestoftheleft.com/1736

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the murder of Charlie Kirk

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#podcast #progressive #progressives #ProgressivePolitics #politics #USpolitics #democrats #schumer #jeffries #zohranmamdani #mamdani #OppositionParty #DemocraticSocialism #populism #democracy

"Vague notions of passing the torch from old to young are now the cause du jour for centrist liberals. Little wonder: the youth narrative allows them to appear to be yielding to populist change-oriented energies while simultaneously eliding the value of economically progressive and democratic socialist political ideas. When disconnected from a popular pro-worker agenda, youth-based campaigns hijack more substantive demands for change and displace the role of economic populism in delivering that change. At best, they promote a flimsy generational affiliation in lieu of broad class consciousness. At worst, these campaigns are sometimes Trojan Horse threats against more genuinely progressive incumbents.

If a politician is no longer able to do their job effectively because of aging or a simple lack of will, whoever tries to replace them should at a minimum be able to distinguish themselves on more than just personal biography. They should be able to articulate what, exactly, they will be fighting for, and they should have an ambitious political platform and the organizing bona fides to back it up. Generational change is a false spring. Only a working-class movement and candidates who are committed to representing it offer real hope for a brighter day."

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/youth-democrats-mamdani-populism-politics

#USA #Democrats #DemocraticParty #Populism #Youth #DemocraticSocialism #Politics #PartyPolitics

This edited volume of mine came out a year ago and will soon be in paperback via Haymarket Books. #populism #Trump #authoritarianism #dictator #MBS #Orban #rightwing #academia #academicchatter #newbooks #philosophy #sociology #psychoanalysis #freud #cgjung https://www.dustinjbyrd.org

Yair Rosenberg's article dives into the contradictions in Donald Trump's 2024 economic policies versus his populist campaign rhetoric. Despite winning the popular vote and key swing states, rising concerns about his tariffs threaten inflation and recession, leading to disillusionment among supporters as approval ratings drop. Trump's approach struggles to align diverse voter interests, posing challenges for his party’s future. Discover more insights here: https://www.alternet.org/trump-atlantic-tariffs-economy/ #Trump2024, #Economy, #Populism, #Tariffs, #Disillusionment

"#Alabama’s experience under Wallace presents a stark warning to #Trump’s working class supporters: while populist rhetoric may appear to offer a voice to voters who feel disenfranchised and marginalized, the policies that follow from it often fail to serve their needs. "

A prescient article proving more accurate by the second:

https://time.com/7198869/george-wallace-donald-trump-populism/

#racism #populism #dumbassery

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

Pierre Poilievre already limits journalists to one question with no follow up so as to control rhe narrative and record clickbait for his fascist “X” followers.

His vitriol for left wing “radical woke” media now has him banning all press but his loyalist partisan groups.

Make no mistake, this is straight out of Trump’s playbook. Pierre will defund the #CBC while boosting right wing #RebelNews and other partisan media as our only “acceptable” Canadian news sources.

#PierrePoilievre has fully embraced the populist division of Canadians as his key winning strategy.

Those of us who continue to question his motives or intentions are soon to be ignored and banished from his palace if he is given power.

Under Poilievre’s Canada, those deemed “woke” will be targeted and discriminated against as part of Conservative policy, with no questions allowed.

This is not my Canada. This is not my Prime Minister.

#JustLikeTrump #JustLikeADictator #NeverVoteConservative #JustLikeFascists #HateCampaign #discrimination #populism #waronwoke #waronpublicmedia #NoQuestions #NoTransparency #NoSecurityClearance #cdnpoli #canpoli

@Byrnejmf

Croatia populist president re-elected in landslide https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/croatia-populist-president-re-elected-in-landslide/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AndrejPlenković #Croatia #Croatiaelections #populism #Russia

"In this conjuncture, Democrats and other center-left parties around the world have a fundamental choice to make: continue to play the role of the loyal opposition in a political order defined primarily by the populist right, or mobilize a transformative ideological vision, viable electoral coalition, and distinctive set of policies capable of defining the political order itself.

Choosing the latter will require accepting the failure of the popular front general election strategy Democrats have embraced for the past three presidential cycles. A coalition that, as Tim Walz bragged, ranges “from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift” will always be about defending the status quo, nor does it actually succeed in pulling Republican voters across the aisle. Even party apparatchik Rahm Emanuel can now admit that the status quo is broken and no longer defendable.

No doubt, the transformative choice is a tougher climb for Democrats. For decades, they have avoided spending the political capital necessary to push through legislation that would make it easier to form private sector unions, challenge business power, and foster a progressive social base at the heart of the party. There are some signs that an increasing number of Democrats are amenable to filibuster reform, which would lower the legislative hurdles to pro-labor legislation, and Biden did take significant though symbolic action to establish himself as a pro-union president.

But establishing a new political order requires more than just good policy. It means nothing less than resetting the very boundaries of politics and making what once seemed impossible possible."

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/democrats-blame-game-populism-postelection

#USA #DemocraticParty #Populism #Politics #Elections #PresidentialElection2024

"There is not one kind of Trump voter. Of course there are the Nazis, the alt-right, the hyper-misogynist and hyper-racist—all those who feast on Trump’s wild promises, noxious insults, and boorish ways. There are those animated by hatred for the “libs,” whose contempt or mere disregard they absorb daily. There are Christians, Zionists, and even (late-breaking) Muslims who expect Trump to serve their cause better than the Biden–Harris regime did. There are those who want the southern border of the country fortified and recent migrants deported. There are small business owners who want lower taxes and fewer restrictions, and former mining and industrial workers who want jobs that would pay what union-protected ones did.

But none of them fully account for Trump’s historic triumph—the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004. What does? Three things: Trump’s economic populism in a context in which the Democrats have become the party of the elite; the exhaustion of liberal democracy as a viable or trusted form; and the destruction of education, especially higher education, in the United States."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-party-out-of-touch/

#USA #Trump #DemocraticParty #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #LiberalDemocracy #Populism #Education #HigherEd #Liberalism #Neoliberalism #Democracy

"Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.

I have been writing about these things for 20 years, and I have begun to doubt that any combination of financial disaster or electoral chastisement will ever turn on the lightbulb for the liberals. I fear that ’90s-style centrism will march on, by a sociological force of its own, until the parties have entirely switched their social positions and the world is given over to Trumpism.

Can anything reverse it? Only a resolute determination by the Democratic Party to rededicate itself to the majoritarian vision of old: a Great Society of broad, inclusive prosperity. This means universal health care and a higher minimum wage. It means robust financial regulation and antitrust enforcement. It means unions and a welfare state and higher taxes on billionaires, even the cool ones. It means, above all, liberalism as a social movement, as a coming-together of ordinary people — not a series of top-down reforms by well-meaning professionals."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html

#USA #Trump #Politics #DemocraticParty #PresidentialElection2024 #WorkingClass #Populism #ClassWar #Neoliberalism #RadicalCentrism

#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

Trump: Neither unique nor irreplaceable - #GwynneDyer
"what if Saturday’s bullet had hit #Trump abt 2 fingers’ width to the right & blown his brains out? Half the #US #population wld be enraged & the other half wld be #secretly relieved, but how much wld really be changed?🫨 The #Republican Party wld still be much farther to the right than it was 10 years ago, & it’s sheer #nonsense to believe tt Trump was the sole cause for that slide into #crude #nationalism & #populism"
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-neither-unique-nor-irreplaceable-gwynne-dyer/ar-BB1pYwe4

📰 A Lusa continua a acompanhar a conferência internacional da International Network for Theory of History e, desta feita, falou com o historiador Ethan Kleinberg sobre como os movimentos populistas estão a usar mitos históricos para promover políticas do passado.

https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/populismo-simplifica-a-historia-para-regressar-a-politicas-do-passado-lamenta-historiador/

#Histodons #INTH2024 #PublicHistory #Populism #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #SciComPT #Populismos #EthanKleinberg

📰 A Lusa continua a acompanhar a conferência internacional da International Network for Theory of History e, desta feita, falou com o historiador Ethan Kleinberg sobre como os movimentos populistas estão a usar mitos históricos para promover políticas do passado.

https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/populismo-simplifica-a-historia-para-regressar-a-politicas-do-passado-lamenta-historiador/

#Histodons #INTH2024 #PublicHistory #Populism #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #SciComPT #Populismos #EthanKleinberg

📰 A Lusa continua a acompanhar a conferência internacional da International Network for Theory of History e, desta feita, falou com o historiador Ethan Kleinberg sobre como os movimentos populistas estão a usar mitos históricos para promover políticas do passado.

https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/populismo-simplifica-a-historia-para-regressar-a-politicas-do-passado-lamenta-historiador/

#Histodons #INTH2024 #PublicHistory #Populism #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #SciComPT #Populismos #EthanKleinberg

📰 A Lusa continua a acompanhar a conferência internacional da International Network for Theory of History e, desta feita, falou com o historiador Ethan Kleinberg sobre como os movimentos populistas estão a usar mitos históricos para promover políticas do passado.

https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/populismo-simplifica-a-historia-para-regressar-a-politicas-do-passado-lamenta-historiador/

#Histodons #INTH2024 #PublicHistory #Populism #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #SciComPT #Populismos #EthanKleinberg

📰 A Lusa continua a acompanhar a conferência internacional da International Network for Theory of History e, desta feita, falou com o historiador Ethan Kleinberg sobre como os movimentos populistas estão a usar mitos históricos para promover políticas do passado.

https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/populismo-simplifica-a-historia-para-regressar-a-politicas-do-passado-lamenta-historiador/

#Histodons #INTH2024 #PublicHistory #Populism #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #SciComPT #Populismos #EthanKleinberg

A brief introduction:
Always in between countries, continents, spaces, writing forms and disciplines: between the US, Spain and Latin America; between academia and political participation; between academic articles, essays and journalism; between teaching and learning.

I teach as lecturer in the Modern Languages department at Fordham University, NYC. I'm part of the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social #IECCS I write frequently about #USPolitics for Spanish outlets like @ElSaltoDiario and @ctxt and about #Spain for English speaking media.

I'm currently finishing a book manuscript about the crises, tensions and transformations of Spanish Democracy's political culture within recent years, from a #culturalstudies perspective.

Some topics, fields and problems that are important to me include: #politics #philosophy #mediastudies #populism #municipalism #commons #antifascism #antiracism #ideology #hegemony #popularculture

A brief introduction:
Always in between countries, continents, spaces, writing forms and disciplines: between the US, Spain and Latin America; between academia and political participation; between academic articles, essays and journalism; between teaching and learning.

I teach as lecturer in the Modern Languages department at Fordham University, NYC. I'm part of the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social #IECCS I write frequently about #USPolitics for Spanish outlets like @ElSaltoDiario and @ctxt and about #Spain for English speaking media.

I'm currently finishing a book manuscript about the crises, tensions and transformations of Spanish Democracy's political culture within recent years, from a #culturalstudies perspective.

Some topics, fields and problems that are important to me include: #politics #philosophy #mediastudies #populism #municipalism #commons #antifascism #antiracism #ideology #hegemony #popularculture

A brief introduction:
Always in between countries, continents, spaces, writing forms and disciplines: between the US, Spain and Latin America; between academia and political participation; between academic articles, essays and journalism; between teaching and learning.

I teach as lecturer in the Modern Languages department at Fordham University, NYC. I'm part of the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social #IECCS I write frequently about #USPolitics for Spanish outlets like @ElSaltoDiario and @ctxt and about #Spain for English speaking media.

I'm currently finishing a book manuscript about the crises, tensions and transformations of Spanish Democracy's political culture within recent years, from a #culturalstudies perspective.

Some topics, fields and problems that are important to me include: #politics #philosophy #mediastudies #populism #municipalism #commons #antifascism #antiracism #ideology #hegemony #popularculture