#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Air Date 12/8/2023
Neoliberalism has created a lot of economic suffering and insecurity in addition to weakened social ties over the past few decades. And now, in what may be the most devastating result of the ideology yet, neoliberalism may be leading much of the world toward fascism bolstered by legitimate grievances about economic precarity which are coopted by the false promises of right-wing populism.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Far-right extremism on the rise around the globe - The ReidOut with Joy Reid - Air Day 11-28-23
A troubling sign of the rise of far-right extremists being elected around the world, as anti-Islamic populist Geert Wilders is newly elected in the Netherlands.
Populism is rather a specific form of discontent. Discontent is the umbrella term. It's this vague sense that the way things are being done is not working. That democracy is not effective.
Far-right libertarian Javier Milei has been elected president of Argentina. Franco Metaza, the director of international relations for the Argentine Senate, joins to discuss.
Ch. 5: Media Coverage of the Trump Movement is Missing Vital Context - On the Media - Air Date 11-29-23
Jeff Sharlet, author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, argues that Trump's narratives of martyrdom, a persecuted in-group, a mysterious out-group, and a rhetoric of violence are all hallmarks of fascism.
Ultra-conservative former federal Judge Michael Luttig warns: 'American democracy [is] on a knife's edge...in greater peril today than it's ever been in American history.
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Ch. 12: Final comments on preparing for the 2024 election
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Description: A photo triptych of Donald Trump, Geert Wilders president-elect of The Netherlands, and Javier Milei president-elect of Argentina. Trump is smiling and looking toward Wilders and Milei.
Credits: “Trump at CPAC” by Kingofthedead, Wikimedia Commons; License: CC BY SA 2.0; Changes: Cropped | “Geert Wilders during a political campaign” by Peter van der Sluijs, Wikimedia Commons; License: CC BY SA 2.0; Changes: Cropped | “Javier Milei in VIVA22” by Vox España, Wikimedia Commons; License: Public Domain; Changes: Cropped
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| 0:24.3 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left |
| 0:30.5 | podcast in which we shall look at how neoliberalism has created a lot of |
| 0:34.8 | economic suffering and insecurity over the past few decades and how now in what may be the |
| 0:40.9 | most devastating result of the ideology yet, |
| 0:44.3 | neoliberalism may be leading much of the world toward fascism, |
| 0:48.6 | bolstered by legitimate grievances about economic precarity, which are co-opted by the false promises of |
| 0:56.7 | right-wing populism. |
| 0:58.7 | Sources today include the readout, the Democracy Paradox, Democracy Now, on the media, and the |
| 1:05.4 | Bradcast with additional members only clips from On the Media and the |
| 1:10.0 | Democracy Paradox. And we begin tonight with a dark moon rising around the globe. |
| 1:21.2 | Just before we all broke for the Thanksgiving holiday, we received disturbing news from the a stunning and resounding victory. |
| 1:33.0 | What he offered his country was a referendum on leaving the European Union or |
| 1:38.0 | nexit, a complete hold on asylum seekers and a migrant pushback at Dutch borders. He's also called for the |
| 1:45.8 | de-Islamization of the country which includes no mosques and no Islamic schools. |
| 1:52.1 | It was a stunning swing for the country which is why mosques and no Islamic schools. |
| 1:53.0 | It was a stunning swing for the country, |
| 1:54.6 | which is one of Europe's most socially liberal |
| 1:56.7 | and has prided itself on tolerance. |
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