Launching into a Populism 101 and enjoying the writing of @danieldrache & @MarcDFroese who remind us that we’ve been here before as authoritarianism, nationalism + nativism are woven together “to form a chaotic tapestry” in ‘Has Populism Won?’. (Twitter)

If you know nothing about populism then this is the book for you! It will give you a good basis in what it is, where it came from and how it’s risen in recent years, with a good sprinkling of sociology in there, the probably for me is; as someone who loves politics and teaches voting and trends, I know too much! It was presented very well too!

Dear Lord! What a dreadful excuse for a serious book. These two academics from Canada clearly demonstrate what is wrong with scholarship that is composed by far-left political scientists. "Has Populism Won?" was composed almost entirely from clickbait that they found in the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and yes, even The Guardian. Even worse, Drache and Froese even cited off the chart far-left sources such as the Jacobin, Think Progress, and the New Left Review. The straw that broke this camel's back was the authors' list for Further Reading -- Our Top 10 Recommendations in which they listed Umberto Eco's analysis of current fascism "Ur-Fascism" which amazingly they themselves may not have read since their footnotes were drawn from a review of this well-known book that appeared in The New York Review of Books.