Posts Tagged ‘populism’

Mike Pence Slams Populism: ‘On Same Road to Ruin’ as Progressivism

Former Vice President Mike Pence gave a full-throated condemnation of Republican populism on Wednesday and implored Republicans to embrace traditional conservatism over the rising movement he likens to progressivism on the left.  Source

Cuomo and Newsom symbolize the rot of corporate democrats — and the dire need for progressive populism

The governors of New York and California — the most populous states led by Democrats — now symbolize how slick liberal images are no substitute for genuinely progressive priorities. After 10 years as New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo is facing an uproar over revelations that his administration intentionally and drastically undercounted the deaths from COVID in nursing homes. Meanwhile, […]

Trump’s GREATEST TREASON is the betrayal of populism

    In his erratic grasping at power, outgoing US President Donald Trump is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The undemocratic electoral system needs to be dismantled, but he doesn’t have the good of his supporters in mind. When the district judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected the US demand to extradite Julian Assange, […]

Populism is to blame for UK government’s mixed messaging over COVID strategy, says Alastair Campbell

The UK government has sent out mixed messages to citizens when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, according to political strategist and author Alastair Campbell. A former director of communications for ex-prime minister Tony Blair, he said populism – worrying less “about the facts than the impression you’re trying to create amongst the public” – […]

Scheer Intelligence: Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism

Above image: A portrait of Thomas Frank by Mr. Fish. On this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” the journalist examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans. The word “populism” gets a bad rap these days as corporate media warns of its alleged dangers and President […]

John Kerry Says Great Reset is Needed to Stop Rise of Populism

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has labeled discussion of “The Great Reset” as a “conspiracy theory” despite the fact that he advocated it two months ago. “The Great Reset” began trending on Twitter on Monday after a United Nations conference call Trudeau participated in back in September received fresh attention. During his presentation, Trudeau said […]

Joe Biden’s election offers lessons for Europe on how to deal with far-right populism ǀ View

As President Trump and his cadre still refuse to concede the American presidential election, even going so far as to begin vetting new appointees for a regime that will never govern, the reaction from Joe Biden’s team has been instructive. That is to say, they have largely ignored the mess playing out on Pennsylvania Avenue […]

European Establishment Loses its First Major Election to Populism

The revolt of voters across the Western world has reached a high point in Europe. The Five Star Movement and the League, two so-called “populist” political parties in Italy, are preparing to form a government after Wednesday’s appointment of a new prime minister following an election result that could directly challenge the foundations of the […]

Populism Of Hope Begins When People Feel Their Own Power

Populism Of Hope Begins When People Feel Their Own Power Above Photo: At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, attended by an estimated 200,000 people, a group heads down a street carrying protest signs. Dr. Martin Luther King can be seen on the left side at the head of the group. August 28, 1963. […]

Where European populism is going in 2018

     While the establishment may breathe a sigh of relief looking back at political developments and events in Europe – which was spared some of the supposedly “worst-case scenarios” including a Marine le Pen presidency, a Merkel loss and a Geert Wilders victory – in 2017, any victory laps will have to be indefinitely postponed […]

Trump’s Twenty-First-Century American Populism

Among the stranger features of the 2016 election campaign was the success of Donald Trump, a creature of globalization, as an America First savior of the white working class. A candidate who amassed billions of dollars by playing globalization for all it was worth — he manufactured clothes and accessories bearing his name in low-wage economies and […]

Bringing Power To The People: The Unlikely Case For Utility Populism

Above Photo: Solar panels installed on a Pennsylvania farm, thanks to a USDA grant (U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr) One glaring omission in the postmortem handwringing about the 2016 election is the fact that most poor people in America—of all races and genders—simply didn’t vote. They were prevented from doing so by a number of structural […]

European Leaders Struggle With A Volatile New Wave Of Populism

A woman walks past a Jeremy Corbyn mural in Camden, London on, June 1, 2017. (AP/Frank Augstein) Last week’s elections in the United Kingdom were a fiasco for Prime Minister Theresa May, whose Conservative Party lost 12 seats in Parliament, weakening the government just ahead of crucial negotiations on the U.K.’s exit from the European […]

New Polling Data Reveals Trump’s “Blue-Collar” Populism Is A Myth

Economic Anxiety Since the 2016 Republican primaries, numerous studies of general election polling data reinforce the conclusion that Trump supporters are fixated on social issues, and that these voters do not represent economically disadvantaged demographic groups. Eric Draitser summarized some of this data in his important CounterPunch piece, “Donald Trump and the Triumph of White […]

‘Goldman Sachs Populism’: Trump’s Tax Plan Benefits The Ultra-Wealthy

During the campaign, President Trump proposed reducing the top tax rate on pass-through income to 15 percent—a tax break that would benefit him tremendously. Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed tax plan would reduce the top rate to 25 percent. Both have claimed this reduction would benefit small business owners and grow the economy. However, these proposed […]

Marching to Cuomo’s house (Updated)

Yesterday, a diverse group of about 150 New Yorkers protested in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Westchester County residence, calling on him to rescind his recent executive order attacking the grassroots boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) for Palestinian rights. Legal organizations like the New York Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal have stated that […]

Manila Barangay Police Hassle Foreigner Trying To Help Lost Child

This video and the following post were shared with the CopBlock Network by “Nasty” Nathanial Thomas, via the CopBlock Submissions Page. Previously, Thomas has submitted several posts to the CopBlock Network. They can be found here, here, here, and here. As he explains below, until recently Nathanial was traveling within the Philippines. This latest post […]

Milwaukee Terror Plot Against Masonic Temple and Israelis is a Total Fake

Milwaukee Terror Plot Against Masonic Temple and Israelis is a Total Fake With revelations from our posters. In what is yet another arch-Zionist Islamophobic plot now comes this inane Milwaukee terror plot hoax. Sure, it was, right: absolutely. He was just about to blow up a Masonic Temple. Then, he would hopefully enter the West […]

Movement Reclaims MLK Legacy

Print Friendly Above: From the MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles for jobs, justice and peace; not war, poverty and racism.  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend there was a call by #BlackLivesMatter to #ReclaimMLK. Events were held all over the country responding to the call and the radical Martin Luther King, jr was […]

Zbigniew Brzenzski: A New Era of Populism is Upon Us

The views expressed herein are the views of the author exclusively and not necessarily the views of VT or any other VT authors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors or partners. Notices Posted by Debbie Menon on Sep 19 2011, With 0 Reads, Filed under Americas, Asia, Bahrain, Britain United Kingdom, China, Editors Picks, Egypt, Europe, Iran, Israel, […]

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