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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—The campaign posters along Artigas Boulevard in the Uruguayan capital were striking, featuring Guido Manini Ríos, a former army chief, grimacing in his military uniform. So was his campaign slogan, “For Security,” and his promise to declare a public security national emergency. Crime was a top voter concern in this election, and Manini Ríos’s tough-on-crime Cabildo […]
In the most expensive election in American history, Republicans flipped the Senate, likely tightened their grip on the House of Representatives and returned Donald Trump to the White House. The so-called “red wave” predicted for the 2022 mid-term elections rolled in two years later, and the MAGA movement is now the dominant force in American […]
Populism has many faces, but its pattern is always the same. Whether it’s coming from Donald Trump in the US, Narendra Modi in India or from Björn Höcke and Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) it is always about supposed elites who have conspired against the people. These elites are then cast the “enemies of the people” in a […]
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has often been accused of copying former US president Donald Trump’s tactics. Some analysts even refer to Dutton, like Trump, as a “populist” who seeks political gain by pitting ordinary citizens against corrupt “elites”. There is evidence of this populism in the willingness of Trump, Dutton and other figures in their parties to attack “big business”. […]
According to an August report from the Russian state news agency TASS, the Kremlin plans to become a “safe haven for people trying to escape Western liberal ideals.” To this end, Russia will introduce a new visa pathway for foreigners fleeing countries whose policies run contrary to “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” The report, […]