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Galraedia

(5,026 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:11 PM Jan 2019

Separating farce from fact in Trump's border wall promises

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Separating farce from fact in Trump's border wall promises (Original Post) Galraedia Jan 2019 OP

Selective Populism Thomas Hurt Jan 2019 #1

Thomas Hurt

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1. Selective Populism

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Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:50 PM

Jan 2019

Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

Umberto Eco "Ur-Fascism" (1995)

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