David Brooks: New book is my personal response to barbarous times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skICYpHTLFw

Poland: hundreds of thousands march against rightwing populist government | Poland | The Guardian

"PiS has been here for eight years," she said. "If they win again, Poland will be ruined and we will be Hungary or China." She was carrying a poster commemorating a woman who died of septic shock last year after doctors refused to perform an abortion when the foetus's heart stopped beating. "I love Poland but if they win again I don't think it will be possible to live here any more," she said...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/poland-hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-rightwing-populist-government

The Best Bits of Jordan Peterson vs Slavoj Zizek

Interview:
https://youtu.be/cyJ9bAsKfLw

Richard Grenell, US ambassador to Germany, wants to empower the right — Quartz

Richard Grenell, the new US ambassador to Germany, has been in the job for less than a month, but he has already effectively declared that he’s willing to obliterate the diplomat line by directly meddling in national and European politics. And now Berlin wants a word with him....

https://qz.com/1296039/richard-grenell-us-ambassador-to-germany-wants-to-empower-the-right/

Steve Bannon Thinks Lefties Will Join His Xenophobic Crusade - The Daily Beast

As I argued in these pages last January, it was premature to write Steve Bannon's political obituary. Now, he's announced his comeback in an interview with Ben Schreckinger in GQ magazine. He is, Schreckinger writes, "plotting the next stage of his right-wing populist revolution" which he plans to launch this spring or summer. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-thinks-lefties-will-join-his-xenophobic-crusade

How Trump Stole the Soul of the Values Voter Summit | New Republic

This weekend's annual gathering was evidence that the religious right never had much quarrel with far-right populism.....
https://newrepublic.com/article/145333/trump-stole-soul-values-voter-summit

Trump's Pick To Lead OMB Spoke At John Birch Society Event In July

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Donald Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, spoke in July to the John Birch Society, the ultra conservative group known in recent years for pushing conspiracy theories, Mother Jones reported on Monday.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mick-mulvaney-john-birch-society

Trump is stoking his base on his pre-inaugural tour. But is he building bridges? (The Washington Post: )

Trump's road show, which ended Saturday in Mobile, Ala., has focused on settling scores instead of healing the wounds of the campaign. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-is-stoking-his-base-on-his-pre-inaugural-tour-but-is-he-building-bridges/2016/12/17/a74a0f0a-c3ad-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html

Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 19, 2016

Interview:
https://youtu.be/BXl3FheoWvI

The Indoctrination My Father (2015)

Interview:
https://youtu.be/7Ij0Cge56S0

Why Is Populism Winning on the American Right?

If your political tendencies disinclined you to favor the U.S. presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, you might be tempted to think that for all its initial implausibility, it’s in retrospect not that tough to explain: Trump’s doubters simply underestimated a contempt for reality and depth of bigotry among Republican Party voters. It’s an inversion of Trump’s apparent view of himself, really: His haters couldn’t comprehend how much true-believing Americans would love him for his authenticity, decisiveness, and straight-shooting demolition of nonsense.

Speaking on Thursday at the Aspen Ideas festival, co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, however, Arthur C. Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute argued for separating out the broad, complex forces behind the current rise of populism in the U.S. and the narrow, contingent reasons for Trump’s success in picking off the GOP nomination. “There are are a couple of black-swan events that happened here,” Brooks said.

“One was that media are going bust, and they saw Donald Trump as bank. CNN gave Donald Trump an 80 percent market share of earned media. Eighty percent. They basically treated him like Anthony Bourdain, … as a reality-show star on CNN. Responsible fourth estate? It’s about money; it’s about not going out of business for another year. That’s what it comes down to,” he says. “The second was a field of 17 candidates on the Republican side.”...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/populism-american-right/489800/?utm_source=feed

Trump and Right-Wing Populism: A Long Time Coming

Most Americans surveying the wreckage of the national political landscape amid the 2016 presidential election are startled, most of all, by the ugliness and violence that has suddenly returned to our electoral politics thanks to the prominence of racist Far Right ideology in the Republican contest. And they shudder at the prospect of what that might mean for the nation’s politics long after de facto Republican nominee Donald Trump departs the scene—whenever that may be.

Almost as suddenly as Trump himself emerged as a major player in the race, so too did an array of White Nationalists and supremacists, conspiracists and xenophobes, and even Klansmen and skinheads. For decades these figures had been relegated to the outskirts of right-wing politics, and many mainstream observers seemed to think they’d gone extinct.1

The brashly offensive statements made by Trump about any number of minority groups or other individuals have likewise confounded observers.

“He is defying the laws of political gravity right now,” exclaimed mainstream political consultant Michael Bronstein in January. “Inside the presidential race, any one of these lines, if they were associated [with] another candidate, it would’ve ended the candidacy.”...
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/06/21/trump-and-right-wing-populism-a-long-time-coming/#sthash.V4J1VSax.eP4zf9bu.dpbs