The global rise of right-wing populism (rerun)
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a few months since our deep dive on populism, but following the annoucement of JD Vance as Trump’s VP pick, the term is back in the headlines. Today, we’re revisiting that episode because it’s important to know what populism is and isn’t, and why a specific brand of populism is on the rise. We will be back next week with new episodes after a short summer break. Until then, keep sending us your thoughts, questions and comments at makemesmart@marketplace.org.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash” from Harvard Kennedy School
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- “Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric” from The Guardian
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- “Populism is morphing in insidious ways” from The Atlantic
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- “US 2.0: Not at the Dinner Table” from Hidden Brain Media
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- “How a health-care cyberattack may affect your prescription drug access” from The Washington Post
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- “Calls Mount for Government Help as Change Healthcare Hack Freezes Medical Payments” from The Wall Street Journal
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- “China’s New Economic Agenda, a Lot Like the Old One: Takeaways” from The New York Times
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kimberly. In case you missed it, we're on a little summer break this week and we'll be back in your |
| 0:05.4 | feeds with new episodes on Monday. Until then, we're sharing an episode from earlier this year on |
| 0:11.2 | populism. |
| 0:12.5 | That's a word that's been thrown around a lot lately in relation to Trump's |
| 0:16.4 | VP pick, JD Vans, but it's important to know what populism really means and why right-wing populism specifically is on the rise |
| 0:26.2 | around the globe. When you're done listening, tell us what you think and write us |
| 0:30.4 | with any questions, will you? We love hearing from you while we're away all right |
| 0:35.2 | here's the show |
| 0:36.0 | anytime jay here we you all right |
| 0:39.0 | well you know it's usually pretty pretty good |
| 0:42.0 | everyone I'm Kyle Rosedale. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, |
| 0:45.0 | where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:49.0 | Thank you for joining us, everybody. |
| 0:51.0 | It's Super Tuesday, March the 5th, and today we're going to talk about something very politics related. |
| 0:57.0 | Populism and populist movements that are gaining popularity in democracies all over the world, especially in European countries |
| 1:05.4 | like Italy and Poland and then in India over here in the United States, potentially? |
| 1:11.6 | So we're going to talk populism, what it is, why it's happening, and where it might lead things, actually here and globally. So the person who is going to make us smart about all this is Bartnekowski, he's a professor of sociology and politics at NYU, New York University. |
| 1:27.0 | Professor, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you very much, glad to be here. Let us start definitionally, shall we? What is populism great that's a good place to start |
| 1:36.0 | populism as a term referring to say a politician like Donald Trump |
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