Populism:

Panel at life the universe and everything. I found the subject interesting.

Goes through a political process. An uprising from the bottom and has a strong good versus evil theme.
It the people opposes the elite of some kind.
Chavez: said America is evil.
Countries anti-Russian that are not part of Russia. Eastern bloc who felt Russia picked on them.
Involves a charismatic leader who becomes the voice of the people.
Populism tends to rise when they feel something in their life is in threat. Want a government that will fix the problem for us.
Early 1900 in Russia there were restrictions and people were starving and finally overthrew the monarchy.
Most people are rational when it comes to their own needs. But they will believe in someone who can take care of their biggest fear.
Mussolini did make the trains run on time.
The effect of taking care of a problem is the perception of being addressed not necessarily being fixed.
Stalin made them feel safe. Wanted to make sure that people who wanted rights they got them.
Hitler had an escape goat blaming country ills on Jews and homosexual.
Hitler invaded first countries that had Germans in it
Russia invaded Ukraine as it had Russians in it. Eastern Ukraine identifies themselves as Russian.
Germany and Russia sent people to other countries so that when they vote they want to join their mother country.
Populism is a man and a moment converging.
Arab spring was populist > but didn’t have a real leader. Social media allows groups to move events faster. It does not change the basic need a charismatic leader to succeed.
When someone is accused without being popular if they move from one group to another group that’s a symbol. One group is no longer a worthwhile scapegoat the will find another scapegoat.
Vote Loki: is a book that shows an example of a Popularist movement.
Love people and having a sound mind is effective then attack.
Freak-outs are usually lopsided. Supporters of popular leaders can see antis are not sharing legit info and the followers no longer trust the antis.
Hitler gained power with a small base was influenced by the parnonmant / government rules
Fiction book: level headiness. Franklin Roosevelt: He did a lot of put people to work that was unconstitutional. Panel thought he was a popularist who didn’t go bad.
Occupy movements: was anger at the elite.
Trump and Berny Sanders was Populism from both sides.
Examples of populism in history: look for revolutions in history. Kirk Ogens> Vaneswella.
Almost all human endeavor/movements are based on emotion.
1917 Russia was two popularities’ groups fighting each other.
It has to come from the bottom an attitude of good versus evil.