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China, while hardly populist, has been failing upward for quite a few years now. Those tariffs, man. And if economics can't account for the monetary value of na
by iraqmtpizza 3y ago
China, while hardly populist, has been failing upward for quite a few years now. Those tariffs, man. And if economics can't account for the monetary value of national security then it's not very useful.
- pessimizer 3y ago"Populism" is only defined by its self-declared enemies, and they define it as any policy that they oppose. Just as we're still avenging the Czar in Russia, and Batista and the mafia in Cuba, everybody is still slandering the People's Party. Never let go of a grudge. So somehow, China's economic policies can be identical to what is domestically ridiculed as "populist." On the other hand, everything authoritarian that Westerners do gets referred to as like what they would do in China.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoI have not once heard anyone describe the European Union as populist despite its wildly protectionist policies and its penchant for massive spending on popular social programs. European elites are quite fond of populism then. As long as they can pretend they have a free market inside their special economic zone. Actual self-identified populists like Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage rail against the EU but would never call it populist, for obvious reasons. I imagine the same for the leader of Italy.