{"id":11141,"date":"2018-04-13T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:49:14","slug":"dueling-populisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/dueling-populisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Populisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n

Populism is seen as both bad and good because people disagree about what it represents and intends. In the present age, there are two different sorts of populism. Both strains originated in classical times and persist today.<\/p>\n

In antiquity, one type was known by elite writers of that time to be the \u201cbad\u201d populism. It appealed to the volatile, landless urban \u201cmob,\u201d or what the Athenians dubbed pejoratively the\u00a0ochlos<\/em>\u00a0and the Romans disparagingly called the\u00a0turba<\/em>. Their popular unrest was spearheaded by the so-called\u00a0demagogoi<\/em>(\u201cleaders of the people\u201d) or, in Roman times, the popular tribunes. These largely urban protest movements focused on the redistribution of property, higher liturgies or taxes on the wealthy, the cancellation of debts, support for greater public employment and entitlements, and sometimes imperialism abroad. Centuries later, the French Revolution and many of the European upheavals of 1848 reflected some of these same ancient tensions. Those modern mobs wanted government-mandated equality of result rather than that of opportunity, and they believed egalitarianism should encompass nearly all facets of life.<\/p>\n

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