Tag: empty signifier
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Same Old: How the Right Harnesses White Fear (& Religious Fear) for Plutocratic Ends
David Campbell and Robert Putnam have an insightful editorial in today’s New York Times. In Crashing the Tea Party they summarize their study of national political attitudes (from interviews with a representative sample of 3,000 Americans) and shed some light onto unifying themes and motivations of members of the so-called Tea Party. Tea Partiers are…
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Wisconsin: How Populism Works | Populism & Hegemony pt.5
This is the fifth post in a series. Teachers, students, firefighters, police officers, veterans, farmers, and even Green Bay Packers players, visibly aligned and defiantly mobilized together in Wisconsin last month, conveyed something very important and powerful. Okay, duh. That’s obvious. If we could orchestrate that kind of line-up all the time, we would, of…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 