{"id":390026,"date":"2018-12-21T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-populisms-not-one\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:17:31","slug":"two-populisms-not-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-populisms-not-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Populisms, Not One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Left v. Right Populism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two very different \u201cpopulisms\u201d that have arisen in response to neoliberal capitalism in the West.<\/p>\n<p>A left-leaning social-democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/2017\/11\/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond\/\">\u201cprogressive populism\u201d<\/a> targets the capitalist concentration of wealth and power and the unbridled pursuit of private profit as enemies of the people and the common good.\u00a0 This populism is egalitarian and radically democratic.\u00a0 It tends towards socialism.\u00a0 Its attractive policy agenda, supported by working-class majorities, includes the downward distribution of wealth, the expansion of the social safety net, university quality health care, increased minimum wages and union power, public jobs programs, and the protection of livable ecology (a Green New Deal).\u00a0 Its diverse political figureheads include Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the British Labour Party), Jean-Luc Melenchon (head of La France Insoumie), Yanis Varourfakis (leader of the new Progressive International), and even Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the reactionary anti-cosmopolitan nationalist \u201cpopulism\u201d of the right. This unattractive and backwards-looking populism shares some of left populism\u2019s disdain for giant globalist corporations and financial institutions.\u00a0 Still, its ire is aimed primarily at immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities and their perceived liberal and multi-cultural champions in the globalist \u201celite.\u201d \u00a0This white-nationalist \u201cpopulism\u201d (some would say faux-populism) carries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/586030\/how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley\/9780525511830\/\">no small whiff of fascism<\/a>. It aligns with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/21\/two-populisms-not-one\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left v. Right Populism Two very different \u201cpopulisms\u201d that have arisen in response to neoliberal capitalism in the West. A left-leaning social-democratic \u201cprogressive populism\u201d targets the capitalist concentration of wealth and power and the unbridled pursuit of private profit as enemies of the people and the common good.\u00a0 This populism is egalitarian and radically democratic.\u00a0 [&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-390026","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\/390026","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=390026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}