Hacker News with Generative AI: Populism

The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs (astralcodexten.com)
President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to near-historic lows. With economic disruption from the tariffs likely to hit next month, his numbers will probably get even worse; this administration could reach unprecedented levels of unpopularity. If I were a far-right populist, I would be thinking hard about a strategy to prevent the blowback from crippling the movement.
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance (quillette.com)
The recent disagreement on The Joe Rogan Experience—between journalist Douglas Murray on one hand and Rogan and comedian Dave Smith on the other—has exposed a problem with the populist media ecosystem: the casual normalisation and celebration of opinions untethered to knowledge.
In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark's Liberals Winning? (nytimes.com)
In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?
Populism and the World of Oz (2016) (americanhistory.si.edu)
In 1964 Henry Littlefield, a Columbia University-trained historian, wrote a breakthrough article in the scholarly American Quarterly titled “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism.”
The Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump's Return (nytimes.com)
For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while “populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.”