In Right Wing Politics, Inevitably New Figures Emerge That are even more Extreme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3BJyVkXiQ
Aug 5, 2021 Arjun Appadorai. . right-wing populism in India and says that while many leaders like Trump may be out of power, at the ground level these ideas have permeated among their supporters.
https://republicansexposed.org/pandemic-proves-right-wing-populist-worldwide-incompetent/
Self-Absorbed, Uncaring, Incompetent: COVID Has Exposed Populist Leaders for What They Are
From the US and Brazil to India and the UK, the very qualities that catapult populist leaders to power are those that make them dismal failures at handling a serious national emergency. https://thewire.in/politics/trump-bolsonaro-jognson-modi-populist-leaders-covid
Populists are dividers, not uniters, Mudde told me. They split society into “two homogenous and antagonistic groups: the pure people on the one end and the corrupt elite on the other,” and say they’re guided by the “will of the people.” The United States is what political scientists call a “liberal democracy,” a system “based on pluralism—on the idea that you have different groups with different interests and values, which are all legitimate,” Mudde explained. Populists, in contrast, are not pluralist. They consider just one group—whatever they mean by “the people”—legitimate....Noting the low levels of public trust in the press and political institutions, and Trump’s sustained campaign to further undermine that trust, Norris foresaw not “an overnight revolution,” but a “drip, drip, drip” deterioration in America’s already troubled democracy. “Faith and confidence in your institutions,” she said, is the “cultural basis for democracy.”
The irony, Müller writes, is that populists, after coming to power, tend to commit the same sins they ascribe to elites: “excluding citizens and usurping the state. What the establishment supposedly has always done, populists will also end up doing. Only with a clear justification and, perhaps, even a clear conscience.”
Taking Far-Right Claims Seriously and Literally: Anthropology and the Study of Right-Wing Radicalism https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/taking-farright-claims-seriously-and-literally-anthropology-and-the-study-of-rightwing-radicalism/1926994C5FEA6E4C366B91AFC62BA6CF
Opinion: Democracy fatigue and the resurgence of authoritarian populists
Moin Qureshi 13 Feb 2019
The rise of the right has created a totally new political situation, leaving opportunities for a more radical political left. Now is the time for the Left to do the hard work. https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/opinion-democracy-fatigue-and-resurgence-authoritarian-populists