The global rise of right-wing populism

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

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Summary

It’s Super Tuesday, and we’re talking about something that’s on the ballot in many nations around the world: populism. Right-wing populist movements have been gaining popularity in democracies like Hungary, Italy, India and the United States, to name a few. On the show today, sociologist Bart Bonikowski breaks down what populism is, how it shows up on the left and right, why right-wing populism seems to be catching foothold in so many countries and the economic factors at play. Plus, why this year could be a test for global democracy.

Then, the reason you may be having trouble getting your prescription drugs lately. And, we’ll hear from our listeners about their favorite anime series.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “It’s a major global election year, and populism is on the ballot” from Ipsos

- “Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash” from Harvard Kennedy School

- “Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric” from The Guardian

- “Populism is morphing in insidious ways” from The Atlantic

- “US 2.0: Not at the Dinner Table” from Hidden Brain Media

- “How a health-care cyberattack may affect your prescription drug access” from The Washington Post

- “Calls Mount for Government Help as Change Healthcare Hack Freezes Medical Payments” from The Wall Street Journal

- “China’s New Economic Agenda, a Lot Like the Old One: Takeaways” from The New York Times

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0:00.0	Anytime Jack, there we go, all right.
0:02.0	Well, you know, it's usually pretty pretty good.
0:05.0	Hey, everybody I'm Kyle Rosedall.
0:07.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us.
0:11.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:12.0	Thank you for joining us everybody. It's Super Tuesday, March the 5th. And today we're going to talk about something very politics related. Populism and populist movements that are gaining popularity in democracies all over the world,
0:27.0	especially in European countries like Italy and Poland
0:30.0	and then in India over here in the United States potentially.
0:35.0	So we're going to talk populism, what it is, why it's happening, and where it might lead things
0:40.0	actually here and globally.
0:42.0	So the person who is going to make us part about all this
0:44.9	is Bartokowski.
0:45.8	He's a professor of sociology and politics at NYU,
0:48.7	New York University.
0:49.5	Professor, welcome to the podcast.
0:51.4	Thank you very much.
0:52.0	Glad to be here. Let us start
0:53.2	definitionally shall we? What is populism? Great that's a good place to start.
0:59.3	Populism as a term referring to say a politician like Donald Trump, Marine Le Penh and France,
1:05.0	is a little bit of a misnomer actually for two reasons I would say. First of all
1:09.4	populism is found both on the left and the right so when we use it to refer solely to Trump, let's say,
1:15.0	it's a little bit confusing at times.
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