I'm not sure we can blame the failure of the left on the rise of the far right. No matter how dire, there is no excuse for bigotry!
“This is not a movement of the angry old white man” - @GoodwinMJ on the populist right in France #vewsnightpic.twitter.com/SspKYDjq7k
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Populism is simply a 21st Century re-branding of nationalism and xenophobia peddled by the same elites that it professes to challenge
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Lots of talk of populism. Wasn't Corbyn's harangue in the church Thursday a perfect example of populism?But nobody criticises that populism!
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People vote for the party that will do the best for, and promote their values and the country. That is not populism, that is democracy.
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The rebranding of democracy as Populism goes hand-in-hand with the repurposing of other words like Racism, Fascism and Phobia
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So what's the answer?? To win back the white working class ? To ask blacks and Muslims to leave Europe ? Stop immigration?? Whites 4 white ?
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France might be set to be the first female president of France and the media have not given her an announce of the support they gave Hillary
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