#IRLScholarRuthWodak "Far-right populist parties thrive whenever there is a crisis. They either construct or exaggerate a crisis or instrumentalize existing crises. They create unreal scenarios of threat and danger, and then they position themselves as the only party and the only politicians who can save 'us' from this crisis and danger. In this way, they first create fear and then hope. This is an interdependent pattern. Which is, of course, not new, which has existed for many, many centuries; but they are very clever at employing this pattern." https://www.populismstudies.org/prof-ruth-wodak-i-am-very-worried-about-the-future-of-europe/ #PhenomnPopulism #TheoryPoliticsOfFearInstrumentalisingCrisis #MetaphorWeaponisation

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Context #AdvocacyBEEuropeanCenterForPopulismStudiesECPSSelcukGultasli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzVPpNdEjI&t=18s #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateXenophobia #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #OrgClassifPPATFreiheitlicheParteiOsterreichsFPOJorgHaider ^[Wikipedia] #1989_ #PhenomnImmigrationEconomicMigrant #2015_ #ToponymAfghanistan #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymEastMiddleIran #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymAfrica_ #ToponymAfricaEastSomalia #ToponymAfricaNorthSudan #PowerControlExclusion #PoliticsTechnocracy

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Supplementary #AdvocacyNLClingendaelInstituteMarkElchardus "The causes of the contemporary wave of populist successes? These can be largely explained by declinism, the feeling, shared by many, that their society is in decline, that many of the valued things are being lost or even wilfully destroyed. Many people hold the 'political establishment' responsible for the supposed decline, and therefore become susceptible for populism. Using the example of the inaugural speeches of American presidents, this article also illustrates how declinism is concretely used to argue in favour of the main populist propositions." https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2017/3/declinism-and-populism/ #TheoryDeclinism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump