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What comes after populism? Nanny McPhee meets Leon Trotsky?

12 December 2018

7:04 AM

12 December 2018

7:04 AM

The success of populist movements in democratic nations is leading many on the political left to envisage a recalibrated political process to ensure that populist figures are never again able to rise to power, resulting in what political scientist Stephen Macedo called “civil totalism.”

Western liberalism, as a political project, has ordinarily been characterized by intrinsic freedoms.

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