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Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future of social
This outcome highlights an alarming gender difference in outcome that should galvanise psychologists to take gender-sensitivity very seriously indeed.
Unless we find a way of side-stepping the extremes and debating these issues in an evidence-led, analytical way then the moderate.
A belief in democracy, in the capacity for governance among “ordinary people,” and a distrust of cognitive elites is what definitively sets populists apart from fascists.
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today.
The question is: Is that entirely a good thing? As our research – and Trump’s rise – shows, not necessarily.