Tag: Populism

Boris Johnson Joins Trump in Redefining Conservatism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As Mr. Johnson’s decisive win in a hotly contested national election illustrated, the conservative movement in the West now has become markedly more populist and nationalist, and appeals to a distinctly more working-class constituency. Fiscal restraint, once a cardinal tenet of conservatism, matters less; rewriting the rules that have governed the global economy matters more.
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/boris-johnson-joins-trump-in-redefining-conservatism-11576277776

Spending doesn’t matter to economic nationalists, apparently?! Sorry, Senator Rand Paul! The Tea Party has been usurped by White Nationalists, like Steve Bannon! If you don’t tow the line, you’ll end up like your friend, Justin Amash! You know, the one that the Freedom Caucus threw under the bus, the day they joined up with Bannon!

‘Economic Nationalism’ vs. Libertarian Globalism Is the Battleground of 21st Century Politics

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What I took away from the movie was less about whether Bannon might personally be able to scale Trumpism up to the international level and more about the realization that nationalism vs. globalism is the fundamental political cleavage in the 21st century. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have far more in common with each other than they do with many people in their own parties; one reason American politics is increasingly spiteful and stupid is because we’re speaking in terms—right-wing and left-wing, liberal and conservative, even socialist and capitalist—that have become outmoded. There are socialist populists and socialist internationalists, right-wing populists and right-wing internationalists, and on and on.
— Read on reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/

Modern Populism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The people is neither left nor right. The people stands all at once for order and for freedom, for a powerful state and for social justice, for strength and for continuous holiday. The people easily unites opposites without even noticing. The people lives according to a particular logic that has nothing to do with the norms of modern political science or sociology. The people is always not what others think about it. It does not lend itself to be calculated or counted. It proceeds from a different logic than that of the Enlightenment and societies of modernity. In some sense, the people is very ancient. It is nurtured by the juices of eternity.
— Read on eurasianist-archive.com/2017/03/17/modern-populism/