BBC: National populists & social media to blame for discord and violence
"National populists prioritize the culture and interests of the nation, and promise to give voice to a people who feel that they have been neglected, even held in contempt, by distant and often corrupt elites." They are part of a "growing revolt against mainstream politics and liberal values. This challenge is in general not anti-democratic. Rather, national populists are opposed to certain aspects of liberal democracy as it has evolved in the West.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism
BBC Newsnight (Gillian Tett OBE):
"...We've seen that in America. The playbook has been brought over to Europe, quite deliberately by political parties..."
Playbook:
“A set of rules, suggestions, or methods that are considered to be suitable for a particular activity, industry, job, etc.:
She followed the company's playbook to the letter.
Nixon rewrote the political playbook.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/playbook
https://twitter.com/cherealstars1/status/1932844352373494120
Ivory Tower:
"To live or be in an ivory tower is not to know about or to want to avoid the ordinary and unpleasant things that happen in people's lives:
Academics sitting in ivory towers have no understanding of what is important for ordinary people."
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ivory-tower
“Gillian Romaine Tett OBE is a British author and journalist. She is a member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Tett
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4520415
SFGate: The Richard Nixon playbook:
"The Richard Nixon playbook was discredited. Alas, that did not prevent people from using it again. The Clinton White House used it for the Lewinsky affair; Enron used it for its financial problems.
Clinton was impeached; Enron was destroyed. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Maybe that news hasn't reached Europe..."
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/the-richard-nixon-playbook-3314928.php
BBC: Fear of populism haunts European press:
"The EU needs a complete overhaul," says Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung, external.
"The remaining union has to learn from the Brexit vote and carry out the most fundamental examination of its policies" since its creation in 1957, the paper argues.
Der Tagesspiegel, external agrees, and tells the EU to "reform or be destroyed".
But it also warns that there is a "shocking gulf" between remedies offered by the political elites..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36633605
Chilly Gonzales: Ivory Tower: I Am Europe:
"I'm a dog sh** ashtray
I'm a shrugging mustache, wearing a Speedo tuxedo
I'm a movie with no plot, written in the backseat of a piss-powered taxi
I'm an imperial armpit, sweating Chianti
I'm a toilet with no seat, flushing tradition down
I'm socialist lingerie, I'm diplomatic techno
I'm gay pastry and racist cappuccino
I'm an army on holiday in a guillotine museum
I'm a painting made of hair on a nudist beach eating McDonald's...
Who am I?
I am Europe"
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