Empire of Resentment Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism
eBook - 2020
From a leading scholar on conservatism, the extraordinary chronicle of how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible—and what it portends for the future Since Trump's victory and the UK's Brexit vote, much of the commentary on the populist epidemic has focused on the emergence of populism. But, Lawrence Rosenthal argues, what is happening globally is not the emergence but the transformation of right-wing populism. Rosenthal, the founder of UC Berkeley's Center for Right-Wing Studies, suggests right-wing populism is a protean force whose prime mover is the resentment felt toward perceived cultural elites, and whose abiding feature is its ideological flexibility, which now takes the form ...of xenophobic nationalism. In 2016, American right-wing populists migrated from the free marketeering Tea Party to Donald Trump's "hard hat," anti-immigrant, America-First nationalism. This was the most important single...
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9781620975114 |
Release Date | 9/8/2020 |
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ASIN | B07VPL2FTW |
Release Date | 9/8/2020 |
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ISBN | 9781620975114 |
Release Date | 9/8/2020 |