The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Nigel Farage
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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit
Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Defeat for UKIP In Working Class Stronghold Deals Blow to Brexit and Ultra-Nationalists
UKIP’s defeat in Stoke-on-Trent suggests the tides may be turning and the populist wave that threatened to smash the traditional order of British politics, and continue to lever the rightward shift, is starting to be broken.
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Bracing For A Brexit: Could Contradictory Positions On E.U. Spark A Progressive U.K. Movement?
With Eurosceptic Conservatives on one side of the debate and an international consortium of bankers led by Goldman Sachs on the other, where will the British people come down on the June 23 referendum to remain in, or leave, the E.U.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Is It Racism, Cynicism – Or Both – That Catapulted U.K. Independence Party to Populist Success?
UKIP's newly elected James Carver claims the party is getting support from minority communities, young people and women, people the media said they could never count as supporters.
