Tag: populism

• Exposure

  July 1, 2025

  Way it works when you want to hide a secret is you tell a good story about it. It’s not lying, more like camouflage. more ›

• The Impunity of the Unscathed: Risk, Elite Security, and the Rage of MAGA Populism

  May 27, 2025

  In 1992 the German sociologist Ulrich Beck proposed the coming emergence of what he called the “risk society.” He prophesied a future where the traditional cleavages of class and ideology… more ›

• Does Trumpism Have A Future?

  May 24, 2025

  On his Substack, Adam Tooze has a two-parter on “Trump’s futurism,” dealing with whether or not Trump’s movement contains a positive vision of the future. In part, it’s a response… more ›

• One Word Describes Trump

  March 9, 2025

  Even those who expected the worst from his reelection (I among them) expected more rationality. Today, it is clear that what has happened since January 20 is not just a… more ›

• Trump, Museveni and the anti-LGBT agenda

  March 7, 2025

  Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the… more ›

• Alice Weidel: The far-right leader shaping Germany’s AfD

  February 22, 2025

  On January 29, MPs from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) clustered around 46-year-old party leader Alice Weidel in parliament taking selfies. Weidel, dressed in a white rollneck and navy… more ›

• Matter of Opinion: Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism

  February 2, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8IWjmZc This week, Ross Douthat talks to Steve Bannon, the chief strategist from Donald Trump’s first term and part of the original MAGA movement. Despite his clashes with new… more ›

• Donald Trump Is Building a Bridge to 1896

  January 20, 2025

  The president-elect promises to rule with robber baron tactics and imperial belligerence—just like his role model, William McKinley. President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=536387 more ›

• Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever

  January 17, 2025

  When Stephen Miller met with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago late last year, the 39-year-old Trump adviser was in a position of power that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.… more ›

• American Rasputin

  June 8, 2022

  There are certainly enough of them. He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he’s forever pecking away, issuing pronunciamentos with incontinent abandon—after midnight; during commercial breaks for his… more ›