Paria sans portefeuille on Nostr: What's even worse is when they gloss fash parties as "populist," which they're ...

What's even worse is when they gloss fash parties as "populist," which they're particularly in the habit of doing when covering the fash parties in Europe. The RN isn't a "populist" party, any more than is the AfD.

Not only does it contribute to their normalization, but it's a complete perversion of what the term "populism" signified, viz. movements which were eminently leftist.

As Thomas Frank reminds us:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/we-need-to-reclaim-populism-from-the-right-it-has-a-long-proud-leftwing-history