{"id":293679,"date":"2017-02-07T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/authoritarian-populism-viewing-trump-reviewing-thatcher\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:18:01","slug":"authoritarian-populism-viewing-trump-reviewing-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/authoritarian-populism-viewing-trump-reviewing-thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarian Populism: Viewing Trump, Reviewing Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_90105\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90105\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/01\/32051259440_91a5a12709_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/01\/32051259440_91a5a12709_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/01\/32051259440_91a5a12709_z-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There has been much said in the media about Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cpopulism\u201d, alleged by some to be the primary tool enabling him to do an end-run round both the Democrats and the establishment of his own party in the recent presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of this populism with an anti-establishment stance during Trump\u2019s campaign\u2013the latter has so far not been translated into reality, witness Trump\u2019s cabinet of billionaires, his planned abolition of the Dodd-Frank regulation of Wall Street, and so forth\u2013 recalls a figure from a different time and political context, namely, Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural theorist Stuart Hall coined the term \u201cauthoritarian populism\u201d to define Thatcherism as the project of undermining the British post-war settlement between labour and capital, by mobilizing a right-wing popular movement aimed at strengthening the state.\u00a0 This fusion of the popular and the authoritarian state would then be turned against the post-war settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Hall had his critics, most notably Bob Jessop, a social theorist influenced by Nicos Poulantzas, who said that \u201cThatcherism must be seen less as a monolithic monstrosity and more as an alliance of disparate forces around a self-contradictory programme\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To an extent both Hall and Jessop are right (which is not to say that their positions can be reconciled).\u00a0 Thatcher did aim to destroy the post-war settlement and to strengthen the state, and this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/02\/07\/authoritarian-populism-viewing-trump-reviewing-thatcher\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0 There has been much said in the media about Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cpopulism\u201d, alleged by some to be the primary tool enabling him to do an end-run round both the Democrats and the establishment of his own party in the recent presidential election. The combination of this populism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}