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The VB was, and still is, mainly a radical Flemish nationalist party.
And even if you would beat the party, you would have still lost in ideological terms.
In thinking of whether there is a potential for a transnational progressive movement one of the obvious questions is: “is there a potential for a transnational populist movement?” If you look at populist politics, they are often explicitly nationalist – the populist radical right for example. But decision making has been partly taken out of that level. Is there a risk to strengthen their image as anti-establishment parties? Populism is a very strong weapon in the hands of the radical right. The DiEM25 movement is interesting from this perspective.
It would mean that only people who are competing with migrants for jobs would vote for them. It is politically useful if you want to delegitimize the Left, by putting it into one bag with the radical right.
But even those that are not, almost always operate in a nation-state context. Whether the concept of a 'nation' is rational or not is another debate altogether, though.
And it’s an important question. The latest trend in India, post the 2014 General Elections to be precise, is to proclaim the love for India on social media platforms and harassing, both verbally and sometimes physically, all those who seem to have a different opinion when it comes to certain issues the former group assumes is against the national interest. However, populism did become very important to the party.
An excess of patriotism in the defense of a nation is called chauvinism or jingoism.
... with both words primarily being used to refer to a general love of one’s country. Expecting every citizen of India to be united at all times, agreeing to a rational stand, would be idealistic and impractical. To certain people and groups it is obviously politically useful. In a moment when far-right nationalism has surged in countries across the globe, it can be hard to believe the terms Nazi and fascist have at times been used in a more lighthearted fashion. Traditionally 'Diaspora' refers to a dispersal of a people from a (real or imagined) 'homeland' due to a cataclysmic disruption, such as war, famine, etc. The VB’s electoral results went down during the economic crisis.
Can you give us a brief historical background of the populist radical right in Belgium?
The elusive distinction between patriotism and nationalism, however, does not really explain the dispute between Trump and Macron or what makes the Trump presidency such a … The problem, in Flanders and also elsewhere I believe, has been the degree of acceptance of the radical right’s claim that it represents ordinary people. If you put one party, some people behind the cordon sanitaire, you risk implying that everyone who is not behind that cordon is acceptable, whatever they say.
The VB was, and still is, mainly a radical Flemish nationalist party.
And even if you would beat the party, you would have still lost in ideological terms.
In thinking of whether there is a potential for a transnational progressive movement one of the obvious questions is: “is there a potential for a transnational populist movement?” If you look at populist politics, they are often explicitly nationalist – the populist radical right for example. But decision making has been partly taken out of that level. Is there a risk to strengthen their image as anti-establishment parties? Populism is a very strong weapon in the hands of the radical right. The DiEM25 movement is interesting from this perspective.
It would mean that only people who are competing with migrants for jobs would vote for them. It is politically useful if you want to delegitimize the Left, by putting it into one bag with the radical right.
But even those that are not, almost always operate in a nation-state context. Whether the concept of a 'nation' is rational or not is another debate altogether, though.
And it’s an important question. The latest trend in India, post the 2014 General Elections to be precise, is to proclaim the love for India on social media platforms and harassing, both verbally and sometimes physically, all those who seem to have a different opinion when it comes to certain issues the former group assumes is against the national interest. However, populism did become very important to the party.
An excess of patriotism in the defense of a nation is called chauvinism or jingoism.
... with both words primarily being used to refer to a general love of one’s country. Expecting every citizen of India to be united at all times, agreeing to a rational stand, would be idealistic and impractical. To certain people and groups it is obviously politically useful. In a moment when far-right nationalism has surged in countries across the globe, it can be hard to believe the terms Nazi and fascist have at times been used in a more lighthearted fashion. Traditionally 'Diaspora' refers to a dispersal of a people from a (real or imagined) 'homeland' due to a cataclysmic disruption, such as war, famine, etc. The VB’s electoral results went down during the economic crisis.
Can you give us a brief historical background of the populist radical right in Belgium?
The elusive distinction between patriotism and nationalism, however, does not really explain the dispute between Trump and Macron or what makes the Trump presidency such a … The problem, in Flanders and also elsewhere I believe, has been the degree of acceptance of the radical right’s claim that it represents ordinary people. If you put one party, some people behind the cordon sanitaire, you risk implying that everyone who is not behind that cordon is acceptable, whatever they say.
The VB was, and still is, mainly a radical Flemish nationalist party.
And even if you would beat the party, you would have still lost in ideological terms.
In thinking of whether there is a potential for a transnational progressive movement one of the obvious questions is: “is there a potential for a transnational populist movement?” If you look at populist politics, they are often explicitly nationalist – the populist radical right for example. But decision making has been partly taken out of that level. Is there a risk to strengthen their image as anti-establishment parties? Populism is a very strong weapon in the hands of the radical right. The DiEM25 movement is interesting from this perspective.
It would mean that only people who are competing with migrants for jobs would vote for them. It is politically useful if you want to delegitimize the Left, by putting it into one bag with the radical right.
But even those that are not, almost always operate in a nation-state context. Whether the concept of a 'nation' is rational or not is another debate altogether, though.
And it’s an important question. The latest trend in India, post the 2014 General Elections to be precise, is to proclaim the love for India on social media platforms and harassing, both verbally and sometimes physically, all those who seem to have a different opinion when it comes to certain issues the former group assumes is against the national interest. However, populism did become very important to the party.
An excess of patriotism in the defense of a nation is called chauvinism or jingoism.
... with both words primarily being used to refer to a general love of one’s country. Expecting every citizen of India to be united at all times, agreeing to a rational stand, would be idealistic and impractical. To certain people and groups it is obviously politically useful. In a moment when far-right nationalism has surged in countries across the globe, it can be hard to believe the terms Nazi and fascist have at times been used in a more lighthearted fashion. Traditionally 'Diaspora' refers to a dispersal of a people from a (real or imagined) 'homeland' due to a cataclysmic disruption, such as war, famine, etc. The VB’s electoral results went down during the economic crisis.
Can you give us a brief historical background of the populist radical right in Belgium?
The elusive distinction between patriotism and nationalism, however, does not really explain the dispute between Trump and Macron or what makes the Trump presidency such a … The problem, in Flanders and also elsewhere I believe, has been the degree of acceptance of the radical right’s claim that it represents ordinary people. If you put one party, some people behind the cordon sanitaire, you risk implying that everyone who is not behind that cordon is acceptable, whatever they say.
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