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Some notes on how democracy is being destroyed by populism worldwide —<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> From a comment on Jan-Werner Muller,
<i class="">What is Populism?</i> (U.Penn. 2016), on Amazon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">[Populism] is a particular moralistic imagination of politics, a way of perceiving the political world that sets a morally pure and fully unified...people against elites who are deemed corrupt or in some other way morally
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This is the core claim of populism: only some of the people are really the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">At a campaign rally in May, Trump announced that "the only important thing is the unification of the people--because the other people don't mean anything."</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Melanie D. Typaldos, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> I ask: Who gets to choose which people are really “the people”?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Am I one of “the people”? Are you? What makes you think so? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Same for “the working class.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Democracies-Die-Steven-Levitsky/dp/1524762938/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" class="">How Democracies Die</a></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Democracies-Die-Steven-Levitsky/dp/1524762938/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 192);" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #111111" class="">by <span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 192);" class="">
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_bl_sr?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Steven+Levitsky" class="">Steven Levitsky</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #111111" class="">Cp. other books on populism & the reviews — positive & negative — on Amazon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #111111" class="">~~ Ron</span></div>
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