populism
"When you get big, you become a joke," Kinky Friedman told an interviewer in 1974. "I started as a joke, and that's a pretty good way to start." This was near the beginning of Friedman's career arc from enfant terrible to beloved old crank, and he was playing the punk-kid part beautifully, dropping one caustic aside after another—from "I don't really view hippies as people" to "I hate intellectuals, and I am one." The interviewer, Jan Reid, put the highlights in The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, his great book about the Austin music scene of the '70s, where Kinky came off as a witty wiseass...
Reason
For many years, Italian General Roberto Vannacci was a complete unknown despite his illustrious military credentials. If anything, the Spezia-born paratrooper was only familiar to those in the army. His participation in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and interventions against the so-called Islamic State group made him a war hero among his peers. Today, he is the lead candidate in the European elections for Matteo Salvini’s far-right Lega party and will almost certainly go to Brussels. “I will be an independent candidate who has his own identity and who will fight, with courage, to affirm my own ...
Euronews (English)
In order to understand how right-wing populism - often characterised by nationalist rhetoric, anti-immigration policies, and protectionist tendencies - might view the economic system as a whole, it's important to understand its political roots. In the current political discourse, the term populist immediately signals an anti-establishment inclination and if by establishment we presume the liberal parliamentary democracies of Europe, then the populist narrative must by definition criticise the current order. As Branislav Slantchev, a Professor at the University of California San Diego, summaris...
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Thousands of Slovaks rallied in the capital on Thursday to protest a controversial overhaul of the country’s public radio and television services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico approved the measure on 24 April, and the Parliament, where Fico’s coalition government has a majority, is expected to approve it in June. The plan has been widely criticized by President Zuzana Čaputová, local journalists, the opposition, international media organizations and the European Commissio...
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This summer's European Parliament elections are a test for the radical right across the continent – but in Spain, the outcome could determine the future of the country's main far-right party, Vox. Despite the rise of the far right throughout Europe, Vox haemorrhaged 600,000 votes in Spain's last general election, and the country's mainstream right-wingers are trying to keep up the pressure. In Madrid, members of Spain's longstanding conservative Popular Party (PP) are conducting a membership drive, calling on voters to join the "Ayuso Team." The phrase refers to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of the P...
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