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🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
Proposals for new wind power infrastructure frequently face opposition in affected communities. While right-wing populists are often among the opponents, the question remains: are they actually driving these protests?

Democratic research finds voters prefer populism over 'Abundance' (Elena Schneider/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/democratic-research-finds-voters-prefer-populism-over-abundance-00543188
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p78#a250904p78

"Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication"
https://elephantinthelab.org/populism-platforms-and-the-challenges-of-science-communication/
"Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the rol…

UK; also, needed here.
It’s time for angry left populism - New Statesman
https://archive.ph/Pepgm

Potemkin village populism (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-potemkin-village-populism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p37#a250903p37

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of instruction-following tasks, yet their grasp of nuanced social science concepts remains underexplored. This paper examines whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release novel datasets specifically designed to capture populist discourse. We evaluate a range of pre-trained (larg…

💢 Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strong(wo)man
#politics

Frontiers | Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strong(wo)man
This paper contributes to the growing demand-side literature on populism by investigating how different types of populist attitudes shape support for strongm...

The big problem with "no tax on tips" (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/460158/no-tax-on-tips-jobs-workers-list-populism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p54#a250904p54

How elites destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and fuelled populism
... great and concise analysis of the confluence of right wing and left wing populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoD6ccdmlfI

As Trump Recession Looms, New WSJ Poll Backs Call for Democrats to Embrace Economic Populism | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-recession-poll

‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/30/lit…

Liberals often struggle against populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism,
-- which carries much less appeal.
Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/202

Did you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…

Via Anne Applebaum on Bluesky:
"Autocratic populism produces poverty and decline" https://vsquare.org/inside-viktor-orbans-failure-to-achieve-his-demographic-goal/

Liberals often struggle against these populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism, which carries much less appeal. Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy.
— The Folksy Outsider. Pushing against the boundaries of written and unwritten norms is a standard performative element in the populist toolbox, establishing the populist leader as a folksy outsider disrespected by liberal elites.
We can expect Trump to continue …

Finns en populism i delar av klimatdebatten, särskilt kring socialdemokratin, som bygger på att avfärda och göra narr av alla typer av livsstilsförändringar för att det ändå är företagen som är de "stora bovarna". Och visst, det är en poäng att individen kan göra rätt lite och att de stora förändringarna bara kan göras på samhällsnivå genom lagstiftning (inom vårt kapitalistiska system). Men det bygger också till viss del på ett stort missförstånd kring hur ekonomin funkar.