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Monday, April 16, 2018

Trashing Populism: Dim-Bulb Academic Vs. Deplorables

Ilana Mercer, American Renaissance, April 13, 2018

“[W]orking-class “losers” are being labelled illiberal fascists for . . . wanting a local economy around which to center flesh-and-blood communities.”  To say that academic elites don’t like ordinary folks is to state the obvious.  To them, Lanford, Illinois—the fictional, archetypal, working-class town, made famous by Roseanne and Dan Conner—is not to be listened to, but tamed.   A well-functioning democracy depends on it.

Taming Fishtown—Charles Murray’s version of Landford—is the thread that seems to run through  a new book, “The People vs. Democracy,” by one Yascha Mounk.  You guessed it. Mr. Mounk is not an American from the prairies; he’s a German academic, ensconced at Harvard, and sitting in judgment of American and European populism.

If only he were capable of advancing a decent argument..........Your common, garden-variety academic is selected and elevated in academia precisely because of a pre-existing condition: a globalist, deracinated disposition......To Read More....
 
  • deracinated; deracinating transitive verb 1 : uproot 2 : to remove or separate from a native environment or culture; especially : to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from
 

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