Well the title is misleading……a form of populism has most always been there….it just got a lot more attention in the last couple of years.
And since the rise of Donald Trump more people are paying attention.
Why?
Every European country had its “Trump-esque” figure in the last elections……
A good article in the American Conservative……..
The suicide in the Friuli region of northern Italy earlier this year of a 30-year-old man, identified in the newspapers only as Michele, has become a symbol of the country’s unemployment tragedy, particularly as it affects young people. Though much worse in the South, the country’s economic crisis also has had a blighting effect on the North. The national unemployment rate now stands at nearly 12 percent. A 40 percent youth unemployment rate nationwide, however, has people speaking of a generational apartheid in Italy. There is no work to be found for young people. In the workplace, comparatively speaking, they have been walled off from the rest of the population.
Friuli is a region of plain and mountain in the northeastern part of Italy, flush against borders to the north with Austria and the east with Slovenia. The annals of Friuli antedate by many centuries the arrival of the ancient Romans, who founded the colony of Aquileia there nearly two hundred years before Christ. The barbarian invasions swept over Friuli in the general wreckage of the Roman Empire. An Aquileian state arose in the Middle Ages, but was absorbed in the 15th century by the expanding Venetian empire. Then Friuli passed through French and Austrian phases of occupation and control before becoming part the newly founded Kingdom of Italy, in 1866.
Source: Why Every European Country Has a Trump or Sanders Candidate | The American Conservative
While this “populism” was popular will it be the wave of the future or just another passing fad?
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
Those populist figureheads tend to sweep to power on a whim, and then things have to settle down, or no government gets done. When it becomes apparent that no good has come of it, they are generally swept out of power with the same enthusiasm. It remains to be seen if that is to be the fate of Mr Trump.
Best wishes, Pete.
He has a pretty strong 30-39% approval…..only time can answer that question……..chuq
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
Thanx and have a good weekend….chuq
So who are we going to blame for this… Millennials I guess… I mean we blame them for everything even though they give books by Sex Offender Bill Oh Really to their kids…
Sorry I am in a bad mood!
Or maybe the “Boomers” they are being blamed for so much these days…..chuq
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. com/2017/09/01/the-rise-of-populism/” rel=”nofollow”>The hawkish Negro™.
Thanx for the visit and the link….I appreciate all the help I can get….chuq
Good blog. You might be interested in checking out mine titled “Populism and the ‘Masters of Mankind” here one WordPress at: https://newamericanspringblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/populism-and-the-masters-of-mankind/
I shall and I will follow……thanx for the visit and the comment….chuq