> These new forms of populism have taken all of the counter-culture of the 1960s 70s and 80s and moulded it into some new form, a grotesque caricature of anti-e

> These new forms of populism have taken all of the counter-culture of the 1960s 70s and 80s and moulded it into some new form, a grotesque caricature of anti-establishment, denuded of any political analysis, and leaning heavily into critiques of state power and media power with no conception of capital. This is a Hippy Grotesque, Dead Heads in a post-truth fever-dream, refusing to come down from the high that is conspiracism, a sort of Peter Pan existence of forever living in your bedroom, stoned and paranoid. Gosh, I can't believe the counterculture is opposing my culture! I don't want to respond with just a single pithy line, but it really seems to me that's the extent of this article. There's no effort to understand what common interests there might be between self-identified progressives and far-right political parties, or critical analysis of when grab-bag protests featuring all the most oppositional groups in one's country do or don't represent a coherent political movement. It's just rehydrated 1960s-era commentary about how the hippies focus on weird stuff I don't think is important, and have political goals I find strange and incoherent, so therefore they're wrong and we've got to figure out how to get them with the program.