Empire of resentment : populism's toxic embrace of nationalism /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Rosenthal, Lawrence, 1949- author.
Imprint:New York : The New Press, [2020]
Description:1 online resource (300 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12651787
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781620975114
1620975114
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"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 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 factor in Trump's electoral victory. In Italy, for example, the Northern League reinvented itself in 2018 as an all-Italy party, switching its fury from southerners to immigrants, and came to power. Rosenthal paints a vivid sociological, political, and psychological picture of the transnational quality of this movement, which is now in power in at least a dozen countries, creating a de facto Nationalist International. The future of democratic politics in the United States and abroad depends on whether right-wing populists stay with this nationalist ideology and whether the liberal and left parties have the political capacity to effect a progressive populism of their own"--
Other form:Print version: Rosenthal, Lawrence Empire of Resentment : Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism La Vergne : The New Press,c2020
Publisher's no.:EB00786391 Recorded Books

Similar Items