Cutting the size has increased the cost in most cases in the past decades. It has also decreased the quality of the outcome in most occasions. The only goal this neoliberal populism has achieved is to destabilize and weaken labor and its organized resistance, which is the true face of neoliberalism.

#Neoliberalism =anti-#Syndicalism = #Fascism = #anti-communsim

It is capital's reaction to labor organization for 1.5 centuries, dressed with pseudo-ideology and tons of #populism

@remixtures

Well worth a read!

“If You Want To Fight The Machine, Don't Move To The Right”

by Caitlin Johnson in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

“Right wing ‘populism’ has been allowed to flourish by the very power structures its proponents purport to oppose, while the authentic left has been systematically dismantled by generations of aggressive imperial operations”

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/if-you-want-to-fight-the-machine?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #US #Empire #FarRight #Trump #Populism #Left #MSM #Murdoch #Sanders #AOC #Centrism

https://www.europesays.com/1877945/ How Czech-Slovak relations went south as Robert Fico turned east – POLITICO #Česko #CzechPolitics #CzechRepublic #czechia #diplomacy #media #PetrFiala #populism #RobertFico #Russia #SlovakPolitics #slovakia #Ukraine #VisegrádGroup #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WarInUkraine #YuliaTymoshenko #zprávy

How Czech-Slovak relations went south as Robert Fico turned east – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/782089/ #CzechPolitics #CzechRepublic #Czechia #Diplomacy #Media #PetrFiala #populism #RobertFico #Russia #SlovakPolitics #Slovakia #Ukraine #VisegrádGroup #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WarInUkraine #YuliaTymoshenko

How Czech-Slovak relations went south as Robert Fico turned east https://www.politico.eu/article/czechia-slovakia-relations-robert-fico-pm-fiala-andrej-babis/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Slovakpolitics #Czechpolitics #Visegrádgroup #WarinUkraine #Diplomacy #Populism #Politics #Media

https://www.europesays.com/1869143/ Alice Weidel took the German far right to new heights. Here’s how she did it. – POLITICO #AdolfHitler #AliceWeidel #BjörnHöcke #elections #ElonMusk #FarRight #Finance #GermanElection2025 #germany #GoldmanSachs #HerbertKickl #Holocaust #JdVance #MunichSecurityConference #populism #Refugees #rights #SriLanka #switzerland #Syria #UnitedStates #ViktorOrbán

"In the early 20th century, the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset warned that such resentment would eventually become the enemy of talent and ability. “The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different,” he wrote in 1930, “everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” Trump and Musk not only feel this same impulse; they have harnessed it for their personal use.

Eventually, such attacks run out of steam when the costs begin to accumulate. No matter how many times Stalin told his scientists to plant wheat in the snow so that it could evolve to grow in the winter, the wheat (which had no political allegiances) died. Today, vaccine refusal might seem like a brave stand against white-jacketed overlords—until your children are stricken with measles or whooping cough.

Modern societies, as Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in public service. The first step in containing the damage is to see Trump’s and Musk’s goals for DOGE clearly: It is a project rooted in resentful arrogance, and its true objective is not better government, but destruction."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/

#USA #Trump #Musk #Populism #Expertise #DOGE

Important research investigating politics and misinformation used 32M tweets from politicians in 26 countries, spanning 6 years and several election periods. Radical-right populism was the STRONGEST determinant of those who spread misinformation.

#FarRight #Populism #Misinformation #Politics

When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries - Petter Törnberg, Juliana Chueri, 2025
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241311886#supplementary-materials

"I’ve often found the ubiquity of “populism” in post-2016 discourse to be unhelpful — in part because it’s tended to refer more to a particular kind of political style than to anything more concrete (I went into this in an essay for The Walrus back a few years ago). It’s precisely this quality, however, that attracts Lake to the term: populism might imply a rebellion of some kind pitting “the people against the powerful” but, beyond that, the exact contours of those categories (and others related to them) in effect become a choose your own adventure — a question of attitude, affect, and outlook rather than wealth, social location, or institutional power. In the reactionary imagination, terms like “populism”, “elites”, and “the ruling class” connote vaguely-defined dispositions more than they do coherent analytical categories; their boundaries endlessly malleable; their foundations more cultural than material.

It’s a nifty sleight of hand, in that it allows conservatives to attach the form and rhetoric of class politics to more or less whatever they like while effectively taking the politics out of them. And thus, in one fell swoop, tech oligarchs sitting at the very nexus of corporate power can become the faces of a “populist moment”; a billionaire president ringing in his second term a tribune of the hardworking masses.

The flipside, of course, is the avowedly anti-populist posture taken by so much of the liberal mainstream since 2016."

https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-populism-of-fools

#Populism #FarRight #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #Trump #USA #Billionaires

Orbán’s power to disrupt is exaggerated https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-hungary-donald-trump-united-states-populism-economic-growth/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Economicgovernance #Hungarianpolitics #Russiasanctions #Centralbanks #WarinUkraine #DonaldTrump #Investment #Commentary #Diplomacy #EUfunding #Inflation #Populism #Tariffs #Budget #Growth #Media #Debt

"Scholars looking to explain the rise of #authoritarian #populism in liberal #democracies over the last half century frequently invoke economic insecurity and cultural conflict, but the role of actual #violence is largely overlooked."

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/terrorism-and-voting-rise-right-wing-populism-germany

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Politicians should keep their hands off our bodies

Wes Streeting’s decision to interfere in what doctors think is best for young trans patients poses dangers for everyone

https://bylines.scot/rights-and-freedoms/politicians-should-keep-their-hands-off-our-bodies

#TransRights #UkPolitics #Populism #SlipperySlope #Labour #Streeting #BylinesScotland

Reform’s conspiracy is about more than butter

Row over cow feed additive is a reminder that populism rests on persuading voters their will is being secretly subverted

A good article looking beyond the raw conspiracy theories being peddled by Reform in the UK.

http://archive.today/2024.12.10-174018/https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/reform-conspiracy-butter-populism-health-slmf25d9t

Whether you approve of dairy products or not the established and published science demonstrate that Bovaer is safe.

#Reform #Conspiracy #Finkelstein #Populism #Ignorance #Subversion #Science

A slightly, albeit necessarily, long (just over a half hour) but timely and worthwhile watch/listen.

#Populism, #Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment
https://youtube.com/watch?v=d8PndpFPL8g&si=V1NMkxVLN3nmHBs9

"Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star."

Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works (2018), S. 71

#Fascism #Faschismus #Populism #Rechtspopulismus #JasonStanley #journalism #media

House Republicans support bathroom ban access for 1st transgender member
https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-ed5a6d74963f58dcd92fbd65274264e3

* U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson supports effort
* ban: trans Democrat Sarah McBride

Comment: GOP party in full force at last UFC/MSG event
#UFC #DanaWhite #KidRock #Christofascism #JonJones
#MikeJohnson #TulsiGabbard #ElonMusk #JoeRogan #MichaelChandler

#Trump2 #GOP #NancyMace #fascism #transphobia #SarahMcBride

VIDEO: transphobe Nancy Mace (R-SC) in her own words #ignorance #hatred #populism

https://www.europesays.com/1639135/ Romania’s far-right, pro-Russian lurch spells big trouble for EU and NATO – POLITICO #AndrejBabis #borders #CalinGeorgescu #corruption #democracy #elections #ElenaLasconi #europe #Extremism #GeorgeSimion #Georgia #hungary #MaiaSandu #MarcelCiolacu #media #MilanNič #Moldova #populism #rights #RobertFico #romania #Russia #SiegfriedMuresan #slovakia #ThanasisBakolas #TraianBăsescu #Ukraine #UnitedStates #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin #war

Romania’s far-right, pro-Russian lurch spells big trouble for EU and NATO https://www.politico.eu/article/could-romania-break-eu-and-nato-elections-russia-influence-moldova-georgia-calin-georgescu/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Corruption #Democracy #Elections #Extremism #Populism #Politics #Borders #Defense #Rights #Media #War

Hey, I boosted this earlier, but the more I think about it, the more I think people should hear it. Please give this #HankGreen video a listen. It's 33 minutes long. Thanks, @tbortels .

https://youtu.be/d8PndpFPL8g

#Populism #Media #MAGA #fascism #MartinLuther #FatherCoughlan #Hitler #Trump

Business leaders are worried about JD Vance and the future of the GOP https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/03/business-leaders-jd-vance-republican-populism-00186981?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #NationalPolitics #publicaffairs #healthcare #Investment #Regulatory #Technology #Antitrust #Companies #Elections #Stability #Americas #Populism #Politics #BigTech #Markets #mergers #Tariffs #Energy #Policy #Rights #Banks #Labor #Media #Trade #Tax

“Wannabe fascism is an incomplete version of fascism,” Finchelstein argues, “characteristic of those who seek to destroy democracy for short-term personal gain but are not fully committed to the fascist cause.”
#Fascism #election2024 #PoliSci #collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #populism #India #Russia #Brazil #Argentina #Indonesia #Israel
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/american-descent-wannabe-fascists-america-last/

Here's some truth @csullivan
What will we get if Trump's sElected? The same as Harris. Genocide and racism. THOSE ARE our choices this sElection cycle... Just like the LAST one, and the one before it and tbe one before it and...

Irl our choices are #Fascist #Democrats #Federalism... #KamalaHarris, or States Rights #Populism #Republicans #Trump.

#StatesRights creates legislative and legal #chaos for the EMPIRE of Genocide. I'm just fine with that. 😎

#election2024 #uselection
@Flipboard

What we'll get with Trump @joshwaa? The same as Harris. Genocide and racism. THOSE ARE your choices this sElection cycle... Just like the LAST one, and the one before it and tbe one before it and...

Irl your choices are #Fascist #Democrats #Federalism... #KamalaHarris, or States Rights #Populism #Republicans #Trump.

#StatesRights creates legislative and legal #chaos for the EMPIRE. I'm just fine with that. 😎 #election2024 #uselection @mondoweiss @palestine @israel

What well get with Trump? The same as Harris @AnarchistFederation Genocide and racism. THOSE ARE your choices this sElection cycle... Just like the LAST one, and the one before it and tbe one before it and...

Irl your choices are #Fascist #Democrats #Federalism... #KamalaHarris, or States Rights #Populism #Republicans #Trump.

#StatesRights creates legislative and legal #chaos for the EMPIRE. I'm just fine with that. 😎 #election2024 #uselection