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Feb 15, 2021
AUSTIN – Throughout Donald Trump’s single term as president of the United States, his opponents in both the Democratic and Republican parties frequently portrayed him as a would-be fascist dictator. But with Trump ousted from the White House, this analogy has become untenable. The Italian leader Trump resembles most is not the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini but rather Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-prone former prime minister.
Figures like Trump and Berlusconi tycoons or media celebrities who ran for office as anti-establishment populist demagogues are not uncommon in contemporary Western democracies. In Europe, the list includes elected leaders like: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, one of the country’s wealthiest men; former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, previously his country’s “Chocolate King”; and his successor, Volodymyr Zelensky, a comic actor who had previously played a Ukrainian president on television.
Demagogues vs dictators
Feb 09,2021 - Last updated at Feb 09,2021
AUSTIN Throughout Donald Trump’s single term as president of the United States, his opponents in both the Democratic and Republican parties frequently portrayed him as a would-be fascist dictator. But with Trump ousted from the White House, this analogy has become untenable. The Italian leader Trump resembles most is not the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini but rather Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-prone former prime minister.
Figures like Trump and Berlusconi, tycoons or media celebrities who ran for office as anti-establishment populist demagogues, are not uncommon in contemporary Western democracies. In Europe, the list includes elected leaders like Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, one of the country’s wealthiest men; former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, previously his country’s “Chocolate King”; and his successor, Volodymyr Zelensky, a comic actor who had previously played a Ukrainian
TRUMP TWEET: Looks like they are setting up a big “voter dump” against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?
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01/05/2021 7:35:15 PM PST
by Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
Republicans always do everything the same way that they’ve always done them.
bryan999
I cannot believe some actually thought we had a chance of keeping these seats. I knew they would be stolen soon after election night.
Elections going forward will not matter. I’m leaving the Republican Party and plan on never voting again. Voting going forward will be like voting in the former Soviet Union.
The ultimate cure for demagogic populism
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Michael Lind
American history shows that the best way to eliminate populism is to incorporate alienated constituencies into mainstream politics and address their legitimate grievances by sophisticated means.
As a political style, populism emerges when conventional politicians and party establishments ignore large groups of a country’s population.
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Donald Trump is the first true demagogue to have been the President of the United States. But politicians who claim to be tribunes of the powerless against corrupt establishments have historically been common in America at the state and local levels. As a form of politics, demagogic populism tends to flourish when large groups of citizens feel that conventional politicians are ignoring their interests and values.