There are three major lessons for we Europeans in the US presidential elections. They necessarily lead us towards the imagining of a transnational counter-populism.
Even where populists don’t win power through the ballot box, they gain it through shaping policy and public debate.
The populist turn in the West since the global economic crisis is undermining Europe’s liberal democratic model. But are illiberal ideas really as popular as they seem?
Both left and right populism are based on a low opinion of public intelligence (an assumption, incidentally, shared with neoliberalism). What is needed is an ‘intelligent populism’.
"A future you can believe in" is the reverse of "Make America great again", because it doesn’t retreat into moral rejection or resistance politics.
Does the fight against post-democracy require a populist political intervention? Español
Several reasons for opening our eyes to the new/old politics of identity.
The longstanding western fear of the people is central to representative democracy as it is understood today.
The neo-colonial logic of the EU has helped trigger the formation of inclusionary populism in Greece once again. But it is no clearer for any populists in power how to implement radical policies.
Populism is something like an inevitable symptom of the innate limits that are constitutive of liberal democracies.
A ‘national conversation’ about important matters is becoming almost impossible under these circumstances. Half the population does not want to listen.
The 'demos', the sovereign people, has been declared a 'zombie' category and this is why we now live in 'post-democratic' societies. Português Español
