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Eyes Right: Trumpism, Brexit and the rise of the alt-right
Manage episode 209032876 series 1097865
May 22nd 2018
With Sarah Bufkin and Alan Finlayson
The Brexit vote and Trump’s election both seem to mark a terminal crisis for the liberal cosmopolitan consensus that has obtained in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. In both cases, centrist elites have been quick to blame external agencies (Cambridge Analytica, Vladimir Putin, etc.), apparently unable to believe that it is the effects of their own policies that have led to them losing significant levels of public support. At the same time, concerns over national identity, and hostility to multiculturalism and immigration, continue to inform the politics of the Right in many ways: from the casual English xenophobia of UKIP the extreme racism of the alt-right. How can we make sense of all this and what can we do about it?
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brexit-trump-alt-right.mp3
Suggested Reading: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/alan-finlayson/brexitism\
89 episodes
Manage episode 209032876 series 1097865
May 22nd 2018
With Sarah Bufkin and Alan Finlayson
The Brexit vote and Trump’s election both seem to mark a terminal crisis for the liberal cosmopolitan consensus that has obtained in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. In both cases, centrist elites have been quick to blame external agencies (Cambridge Analytica, Vladimir Putin, etc.), apparently unable to believe that it is the effects of their own policies that have led to them losing significant levels of public support. At the same time, concerns over national identity, and hostility to multiculturalism and immigration, continue to inform the politics of the Right in many ways: from the casual English xenophobia of UKIP the extreme racism of the alt-right. How can we make sense of all this and what can we do about it?
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brexit-trump-alt-right.mp3
Suggested Reading: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/alan-finlayson/brexitism\
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