The Populists were successful enough to get their ideas adopted, in the short term. But then the Progressives, those elites who know more than the rest of us, took over. The Democrats played lip service to Populism through FDR, but then stopped even doing that.
Thomas Frank's "The People, No!" and "Lusten, Liberal!" are good works on …
The Populists were successful enough to get their ideas adopted, in the short term. But then the Progressives, those elites who know more than the rest of us, took over. The Democrats played lip service to Populism through FDR, but then stopped even doing that.
Thomas Frank's "The People, No!" and "Lusten, Liberal!" are good works on this, from the perspective of a Democratic populist. Matt Stoller covers it in his book "Goliath" on the history of antitrust.
Professor Mark Blyth calls our current populist movement "global Trumpism". He sees this as push back against globalism and that it can be from the Left or the the Right. The elites oppose both types.
Wokeism is essentially an elite effort to defeat Populism, to stop the masses from uniting against the elites.
The Populists were successful enough to get their ideas adopted, in the short term. But then the Progressives, those elites who know more than the rest of us, took over. The Democrats played lip service to Populism through FDR, but then stopped even doing that.
Thomas Frank's "The People, No!" and "Lusten, Liberal!" are good works on this, from the perspective of a Democratic populist. Matt Stoller covers it in his book "Goliath" on the history of antitrust.
Professor Mark Blyth calls our current populist movement "global Trumpism". He sees this as push back against globalism and that it can be from the Left or the the Right. The elites oppose both types.
Wokeism is essentially an elite effort to defeat Populism, to stop the masses from uniting against the elites.
Best of luck on the surgery.