🔮 What explains the global appeal of authoritarian populism?
🔮 What explains the global appeal of authoritarian populism?
Gülşen Doğan describes how charismatic leadership, propaganda, and a commitment to stable governance are behind the rise of autocratic populists.
Lack of courage and bold ideas from liberal democrats.
Authoritarian populism sounds stable in an unstable world, and most people aren't dedicated enough to know the impacts of policies.
Exactly. It offers easy answers to complicated questions especially attractive to people who are to dumb and/or tired to bother trying to understand complex reality.
Looking for blame in a vague "other" is also easier than to face your personal shortcomings. ("I'm not out of a job because I'm lazy, it's those damn immigrants!" "The fact that my children hate me is not due to my shitty parenting, it's liberal transgender brainwashing!")