Michael Kazin
Appearances
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Trump’s Populism Isn’t a Sideshow. It’s as American as Apple Pie.
Well, the dangerous side is pretty obvious, perhaps.
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Trump’s Populism Isn’t a Sideshow. It’s as American as Apple Pie.
It can be used by authoritarians, both on the right and the left, to evoke their, quote, people against an elite they think is dangerous to the country and to their rule and justify, legitimize authoritarianism, legitimize cracking down on that elite in the name of the people. But the opportunity, I think, for people who talk a populist language is that it evokes people
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Trump’s Populism Isn’t a Sideshow. It’s as American as Apple Pie.
The gap between the ideals of the society, which are usually wonderful ideals, freedom, equality, that people should rule in democratic societies anyway.