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Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
Johnson, Adam
http://fair.org/home/some-pundits-think-the-solution-to-right-wing-populism-is-less-democracy/Date Written: 2016-07-08 Publisher: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19649 The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes -- equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating that "elites" should fight back against the forces of inconvenient democracy. Subject Headings |