Populism/popular sovereignty in general is probably the most stubborn Enlightenment concept. You can be almost completely illiberal and still be somewhat populist. Getting rid of it will be like trying to unbake a cake.
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Suggesting maybe we won't and it will just sink the West *mainlines pure liquified blackpill*
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Not necessarily. I still think the “populist” govts of V4/Italy have the potential to metastasize into something...darker.
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Nah. BAP's book just dropped, this analysis has no legs.
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A copy is on its way to me, I shall see
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This strikes me as an incomplete reading of NRx, tbh. Many (most?) were disinterested in the election and/or conflicted about the optimal outcome. Restoration of formalist structures doesn't require a specific means.
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I wasn't thinking about Trump and 2016 per se but ongoing sympathy for anti-islam populist parties, I completely understand where that comes from but it suggests the lack of answers that lack those limitations
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even if you oppose democracy in general, you can still hold one democratic outcome as preferable over another a lot of people think of the Islamic migration issue as potentially fatal for societies involved; in that case stopping it is priority regardless of means
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