Populism

[b]Rally[/b] William A. Whitaker talks about "The left threat" in a speech in London. "As we proceed with the general election, the intentions of the leaders of the big parties are made clear. Time and time again in recent days, we've been assured of what would happen after polling day unless we do something about it. The PLP, while promising centre policies, are in fact on their way into a PLP-Solidarity coalition. The moment it is created, after the election promises are made and the vote…

Marca Kaplar Longer Paper #1 Hillbilly Elegy, Trump and the Death of a Culture President Trump's appeal to the culture, identity, and ideology of the often forgotten working class people was successful by simply allowing a group of disenfranchised, forgotten, and loyal citizens the capability for the hopes and belief that they can be great again. Through the promise of “Making America Great Again,” he sparked a fire in many who have gone from a level of wealth that to them allowed for a very…

hero who saved Argentina from disorganization. Although Rosas was a saver to some Argentina, he definitely was a caudillo. He had all caudillo characteristics. He was authoritarian and charismatic, and he was also a large landowner, and implemented populism. People could identify his characteristics in his policies. First of all, Rosas showed his authoritarian personality and territory expansion by scrambling for the land mercilessly. In 1833, he expelled Indians from southern frontier by…

“American model” of assimilation was reinforced by core values and ideals established by the country’s original Anglo Protestant settlers that are embedded in the American Creed, which promotes the principles of liberty, equality, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire that underpin the U.S. Constitution. The model also embraced, as Wattenberg notes, the notion of American Exceptionalism, a phrase coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in the mid-19th century which assumes that the nation’s…

Aside from the successful unifications of Italy and Germany, many other countries were also undergoing change to become better, successful, and more dominant. Mainly, there were three countries that had experienced reforms or changes. One of these countries or nations, was the Austrian Empire. As the only lasting result of the revolution of 1848 was the emancipation, which freed the serfs; the Austrian Empire was in need of economic and social change. However, this change brought about an urban…

Per the Oxford Dictionary of English, pluralism is “a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.” Thus, one could argue that virtually every nation on this planet always displays some degree of pluralism. However, pluralism and multiculturalism are regarded individually as well as disparately by different individuals, because president-elect Donald Trump, the people of Vietnam, and the right-wing populists of Europe might all give…

Liberalism, Conservatism, and Ideological Challenges to the Status Quo were topics covered in Chapter 4. Although high school I have heard of the term Liberalism, but I never understood what the term really meant. I learned that Liberalism is “an ideology that regards the individual as a rational being capable of overcoming obstacles to a better world.” Also, it “supports changes in the political and economic status quo.” John Locke an English philosopher is known for this form of American…

Interestingly, analysis of voting patterns in the years following the extension of female suffrage indicates that women did not vote in demonstratively different ways from their male counterparts. Instead, female voting patterns were more significantly influenced by other factors, primarily socioeconomic standing. Even though Evita made a concerted effort to grow the female wing of the Perón party, evidence of voting patterns “refutes the common notion that the regime greatly benefitted from…

Within Lasch’s three chapters, “Does Democracy Deserve to Survive?,” “Communitarianism or Populism?,” and “Conversation and the Civic Art,” he highlights the decay of civic virtue, while calling attention to the fact that American democracy was at its best when there was “small-scale production through cooperative buying and selling” (81). Small-scale production required qualities of responsibility and self-reliance, claiming that something more than morality that can generate virtue. Lasch…

Ethnic enclaves are generally a result of ethnic minorities settling near each other to gain a sense of community, create networks, and a potential source of work enclave economy is built around local business started by immigrant entrepreneurs and creates employment for other ethnic minorities in the community (Hasmath 2016). In Light, Bozorgmehr, Der-Martirosian’s essay “Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy”, they define the ethnic economy as “ethnic simply because the personnel (owners and…