RE POPULISM RIGHT OR LEFT CHARLIE ROSE DAVID BROOKS

Rose has now been called on the carpet.

He recently did an interview with Brooks.

 

Brooks said we are entering the age of global populism, meaning I think a rightist, nationalist , surge of anti establishment activism against, presumably, globalist liberalism and its elites. One of globalist liberalism's elites is, of course, Brooks.

 

When you look back through the history of what are now called populist movements, they often were lower class uprisings, often thought of as leftist nowadays, but they were often rural rightist peasant rebellions against urban and aristocratic elites, as well as clerical authorities, which overbore them in one or more ways, often by instituting so called liberal reforms, enlightened despotism, etc.,  which adversely affected the peasantry.

 

The term populism is now used, however, by liberal globalist people like Brooks, to call out rightist and nationalist lower and middle class conservative initiatives.

 

So, which populism is it?

 

Brooks' own liberal populism had its modern origins in democratic mass rebellions as well, of what would be called the left wing variety, against crown, clergy, and nobility in Europe and the American colonies themselves, going back to the 18th Century.

Brooks is loath, of course, to call his own brand of liberal globalism populism, but that of course is what it is.