by Elizabeth Meyers | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
“I alone can fix it”. Five simple words which have the power to jeopardize American democracy. With Trump’s use of such rhetoric at the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2016 when referring to the political establishment, his bold statements painting the media as...
by Max Schmidhauser | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
Populism and nationalism are two separate concepts, yet simultaneously they are deeply interconnected ideologies. Populism, as defined by Jan Mueller, is where a political leader uses anti-establishment (anti-elitist) rhetoric and also claims to be the sole...
by Shiqi Duan | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
Trump’s brand of populism created the single most politically spectacular event in the US’s history, when the pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 to prevent the formalization of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The failure of the American party system to...
by Natalie Asitimbay | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
Salvadorean presidential candidate Nayib Bukele, of the Great National Alliance (GANA), speaks during the closing rally of his campaign in San Salvador, on January 26, 2019 ahead of the first round of the national election on February 3. (Photo by Oscar Rivera / AFP)...
by Konner Lee | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
According to Jan-Werner Müller, the idea of Populism can be identified as an impossibleconcept as there are a multitude of differentiating viewpoints of what populism constitutes. Inrecent times, Britain’s governmental structure has increasingly leaned toward...