Blaming Trump’s rise on partisan gridlock masks just how ruthlessly the GOP set the stage for his demagoguery.
populism
Posted inPolitical Animal
Where Did All the Populism Go?
If voting to water down the regulation of banks is how Democrats win in red states, then the populism of 2016 is truly dead.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Democrats Are Re-learning Populism
Chuck Schumer’s op-ed lays out a long overdue populist, progressive plan for Democrats.
Posted inPolitical Animal
What’s Left of Trump’s Populism?
His brand of populism is increasingly being exposed as thinly-veiled white nationalism.
Posted inPolitical Animal
A Bad Day For the White Nationalists
Two small victories for the liberal base are worth celebrating.
Posted inPolitics
The Thousand Day Reich: Civil Society
A new lens for thinking about the surge of right wing populism around the world.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Obama on Populism and Elitism
“Perhaps that makes me an elitist,” he says. Both terms have long lost their true meaning.
Posted inCover, Economy, June/July/August 2016, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Populism With a Brain
Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April 2010, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?
Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
Posted inMay 1969
Books: The Agony of the American Left by Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch’s The Agony of the American Left [Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $4.95] is a useful book which attempts to deal with the intellectual and political failure of the Left in America. He begins by asking the question invariably asked by the old of the young, “What’s your plan? What’s your program?” His answer […]
