Sam Seder
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The Left Can't Just Focus On Presidential Politics
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January 20, 2018
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"Up until a couple of years ago the consensus among European elites on the left and right was that populism was inherently bad. It was dismissed as a “pathology of democracy” or, as the American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in the 1960s, “the paranoid style of politics”. The rise of leftwing populist movements and parties has seen a shift in the public debate, particularly pushed by followers of Chantal Mouffe and the late Ernesto Laclau, who argue that populism actually constitutes the essence of democratic politics. In their view populism is good for democracy; it is liberalism that is the real problem. Simply stated, both are right and wrong. The relationship between populism and liberal democracy is complex and includes the good, the bad and the ugly.
The main good is that populism brings to the fore issues that large parts of the population care about, but that the political elites want to avoid discussing; think about immigration for the populist right or austerity for the populist left. Leaders from different parties can come together to keep issues that divide their respective electorates off the agenda – such as European integration and immigration."*
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