populism
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The Chess Masters Who Weren’t
X.T.M argues that the leaders cast as grand strategists, from Trump and Modi to Netanyahu, Milei and Orbán, are losing pieces. Op Sindoor, Hormuz, Lebanon and Hungary all cut against…
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Browncast – Saagar Enjeti: An Indian-American Right Populist
In this BrownCast episode Mukunda and Akshar talk to Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Rising on The Hill and host of The Realignment Podcast, about his political journey, the US election…
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Episode 57: Indian Politics Podcast
A Brown Pundits podcast episode with the usual panel on Indian politics, centred on Mahua Moitra, whom the poster calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reimagined as Lady Durga, while noting that panellists…
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The Rise of the RSS
X.T.M, in a provocative aside, says India needs the BJP to manage minorities, lists changes he thinks Indian Muslims should make, and wonders whether liberal democracy fails with large minority…
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President Trump. The unknown unknowns..
After Trump’s election, the author gathers several well-regarded pieces on why and how it happened, adds brief comments on each, and then sets out his own thoughts and open questions…
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President Trump
A short post of numbered questions after Trump’s win: what a President Trump can deliver for rust-belt voters, which of the predicted disasters might come true, and where his instincts…
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Brexit
Noting that his social-media circle almost universally condemns Brexit, the author argues that the large leave vote should be explained rather than dismissed as racism, and offers some loosely ordered…
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Trump, the phenomenon
The author recommends Adam Elkus’s essay on the Trump phenomenon and adds that the internet’s bypassing of gatekeepers helps explain ‘why now’, quoting the essay’s closing paragraphs.
