I don’t think populism is an ideology. I think you mean MAGA, which is one. Populism in general isn’t what you think it is.
I don’t understand why you don’t mention any religions. I suppose this text is implicitly US-centric, even while on the explicit level it makes a lot of strong claims to general validity.
Yes populism is overly broad—I think I’ll reword this with a more specific example. You’re right that MAGA is a better example—but do they even engage with their political opponents? They seem to mostly just sort of yell them down. Maybe my theory is wrong?
Religion is a good idea too—you’re right that this is broader than just political ideologies. I’m a bit averse to wading too deeply into the culture wars, my attempt was to try and describe things at a meta level, or at least try to remain not too overtly partisan, so I was wary of attacking people’s religion etc too explicitly.
Agreed about populism. Populism is “us the pure majority against the corrupt elites”, which can apply to all sorts of ideologies.
There’s right wing populism (e.g. “us the poor working class against the corrupt East coast elites”) and left wing populism (e.g. “us the poor majority against the corrupt corporate giants”, think the Occupy movement). There’s also populism in Latin America that’s more focused on fighting political clientelism, etc.
I think you could easily change the article to say “MAGA” instead of “populism” and get the same point across, though it’s not that big of a deal.
Cool, much to think about.
I don’t think populism is an ideology. I think you mean MAGA, which is one. Populism in general isn’t what you think it is.
I don’t understand why you don’t mention any religions. I suppose this text is implicitly US-centric, even while on the explicit level it makes a lot of strong claims to general validity.
Yes populism is overly broad—I think I’ll reword this with a more specific example. You’re right that MAGA is a better example—but do they even engage with their political opponents? They seem to mostly just sort of yell them down. Maybe my theory is wrong?
Religion is a good idea too—you’re right that this is broader than just political ideologies. I’m a bit averse to wading too deeply into the culture wars, my attempt was to try and describe things at a meta level, or at least try to remain not too overtly partisan, so I was wary of attacking people’s religion etc too explicitly.
Agreed about populism. Populism is “us the pure majority against the corrupt elites”, which can apply to all sorts of ideologies.
There’s right wing populism (e.g. “us the poor working class against the corrupt East coast elites”) and left wing populism (e.g. “us the poor majority against the corrupt corporate giants”, think the Occupy movement). There’s also populism in Latin America that’s more focused on fighting political clientelism, etc.
I think you could easily change the article to say “MAGA” instead of “populism” and get the same point across, though it’s not that big of a deal.