When you have a nominal democracy that is in fact captured by the powerful *and* significant social change.. You get these complex effects.
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Backlash to (what I'd consider positive) social change AND a constituency that feels unrepresented PLUS deliberate erosion of institutions..
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I said it here, too. Let's not forget role of new and old media. Old media by choice, new media by design:https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/706511347484336129 …
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Here, Pippa Norris argues the cultural backlash part is strong (in this global rise) of authoritarians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/11/its-not-just-trump-authoritarian-populism-is-rising-across-the-west-heres-why/ …
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I agree except I think "nobody represents us" is also huge part of it. There was research research showing this to be true among Trump fans.
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In the US, long strain that mixes economic populism with racist ("good old days") rhetoric and calls for strongman & sometimes violence.
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I mean George Wallace in past? And wave of racism against the first black president? Remember, Trump embraced by Romney while a "birther".
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Until recently all this was tied to a party tied to big money. Trump comes along and says, hey, I'll tie this to *your* interests. Works.
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I've been arguing since summer that Trump was a viable candidate. No crystal ball; this phenomenon is neither unique nor unprecedented.
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Mixing economic populism with race-based resentment is so old that "anti-semitism is the socialism of fools" is a German saying from 1890s!
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Also, as I've been pointing out, Tea Party grassroots weren't all "small government" ideologues. They wanted government to work for *them.*
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The part that surprised me was that this came through Trump—don't watch reality TV. In retrospect, it makes sense, of course.
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The other part that surprised me is how lousy TV media has been. Yes he's news, cover him. Giving him unfiltered microphone is not news.
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