Today’s rising populist movement isn’t a flash in the pan
People still employed in the legacy-media are running around screaming about the extreme right-wing populist elected to the highest office of a large democracy. The usual labels are tossed out; “extremist,” “racist,” “bigot,” and the ever popular, “misogynist.”
The dangerous right-winger the media are now slamming isn’t Trump.
Well, yes it is, they’ll never stop! For now though , the newest media target is Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. And he has declared war on Marxism. Yes, this is a good thing.
Finally, the good people of Brazil are fed-up with political lies, corruption scandals, and high-crime rates.
Which you’ll recognize as hallmarks of the progressive left. Voters there decided to throw in with the new guy and latest star on the nationalist world stage.
Nationalism can be defined in part as: a loyalty and devotion to a nation especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. (source)But still, we hear the supposedly smart people on television blame the election of a Trump, an Orban, or, now a virtual unknown Bolsonaro, on the pent up anger of a small voting group. More emphatically, the target of their collective outrage is laser-focused on angry white men.
The failing legacy-media, along with progressive politicos, and old-guard elite don’t understand what is happening.
They still see the rise of elected nationalists as a flash in the pan, a transitory radar-blip they agree will soon pass. As if Trump is the accidental president.Laughingly these people reveal themselves to be one or all of: a media sock-puppet; an enemy of reason; a dull liberal hack, on top of which they grossly ill-informed. Or what you’d refer to as, almost every CNN panelist since Donald Trump announced for president.
But how then does this supposedly small voting bloc account for Marine Le Pen?
You’ll recall in the 2017 French election she won some 10 million votes. Did all of those votes come from vulgar French misogynists? Hardly.
As authors Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin explain in National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy the populist movement has been developing and expanding for a long-time, notably since the seventies.
"If you have the wisdom, the strength, the tenacity, to hold [the coalition that elected Trump] together, we will govern for 50 to 75 years." Steven BannonBolsonaro is but the most recent elected proponent—and his supporters like those of Trump and Matteo Salvini includes plenty of ordinary folks. Throughout the West, at various levels, nationalists have been getting themselves elected. And the electorate is largely normal people with comprehensible motives.
Sure, people are concerned about jobs, but if that was at the top of their worry-list the Brexit vote would have been won by the no side.
Increasingly, the major concern is the effect of mass-immigration on society. Regular folks have real concerns over the rate of change occurring in their community, village or town. They see the problems develop and the costs soar.
I guess it boils down to this; how can a society maintain links to past and build for the future when it is constantly flooded with people from a different culture? With all due respect to Swedish citizens, think of Malmo, Sweden twenty years from now.
The Left and Center-left have abandoned workers in favor of a higher educated demographic.
And why wouldn’t they? They understand that universities are the entry-point for Marxist indoctrination. Millennials too are more likely to be open to emotionally based ideas such as open-borders, banning oil pipelines, and carbon-taxes.
And to be fair, there was a time when socialist politicians genuinely worked to advance the security of workers. Heck, someone had to protect wage earners from those greedy Corpos.
We’ve seen how, over the decades, social democrats cancelled that policy plank in order to speed the advance of their agenda. An agenda that has grown more radical.
Workers and taxpayers can tolerate being ignored for just so long.
They are worried for their children’s future and, seeing the generous welfare payments given to immigrants entering the West, for their own retirement.
Populism isn’t new; it’s just that more of us are recognizing it, embracing it, and listening harder than ever to those telling us we need more of it.
Voters are sick and tired of having no voice, that voice today is a national populist one.
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