The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism — Who Gets to Define Democracy?
What happens when distrust of institutions is interpreted not as a possible response to institutional failure, but as evidence that ordinary people cannot be trusted with political power?
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Using The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank as our lens, this investigation traces the changing meaning of “populism” from the agrarian reform movement of the 1890s to contemporary fears surrounding mass politics.
Frank argues that anti-populism represents a recurring tradition of distrust toward…
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