Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

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A 2016 anti-Brexit poster in Britain.

Trump and Johnson

A 2016 anti-Brexit poster in Britain featuring Donald Trump kissing Boris Johnson.

Presidents Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump.

Duterte and Trump

Presidents Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting in the Philippines in 2017.

Protesters in Manila.

No Trump

Protesters in Manila burning an effigy of President Trump in 2017.

A protest march at the NATO summit in Belgium.

Trump Not Welcome

A protest march at the NATO summit in Belgium in 2017.

Presidents Duterte and Trump at the 2017 Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

Duterte and Trump

Presidents Duterte and Trump at the 2017 Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

William Jennings Bryan is pictured as a snake devouring the Democratic Party in this Judge cartoon from 1896.

Populist Snake

An 1896 political cartoon depicting Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan as a snake swallowing the Democratic Party.

President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2012.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and members of the national security team in the White House Situation Room.

The Situation Room

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and members of the national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving updates on Operation Neptune’s Spear, the mission against Osama bin Laden, in May 2011.

A July 2015 Tweet from Ivor Tossell.

Five Stages of Trump Thinkpiece

A July 2015 Tweet from Ivor Tossell, a BuzzFeed columnist.

Candidate Donald Trump at a 2016 campaign rally.

Trump Campaigning

Candidate Donald Trump at a 2016 campaign rally in Arizona.

Governor George Wallace facing off against Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

Blocking the Schoolhouse Door

Governor George Wallace facing off against Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to prevent the University of Alabama from being desegregated in 1963.

A novelty alarm clock made for Lester Maddox’s 1983 congressional campaign.

Lester Maddox Clock

A novelty alarm clock made for Lester Maddox’s 1983 congressional campaign.

Governor Sarah Palin in her office in 2008.

Governor Sarah Palin

Governor Sarah Palin in her office in 2008.

Protesters outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments on Trump’s travel ban.

Refugees Welcome

Protesters outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments on Trump’s travel ban in April 2018.

A map of the U.S. with the popular vote from the 2012 election.

2012 Popular Vote Map

A map of the U.S. with the popular vote from the 2012 election shaded to depict the way each county voted.

A map of the U.S. with the popular vote from the 2012 election.

2012 Popular Vote Map to Scale

A map of the U.S. with the popular vote from the 2012 election shaded to depict the way each county voted with each county rescaled in proportion to its population.

A map depicting the results of the presidential elections from 1968 to 2016.

Sixth Party System

A map depicting the results of the presidential elections from 1968 to 2016 wherein dark blue states voted Democratic in 11, 12, or all 13 elections; blue states voted Democratic in 9 or 10 elections; light blue states voted Democratic in 7 or 8 elections; pink states voted Republican in 7 or 8 elections; light red states voted Republican in 9 or 10 elections; red states voted Republican in 11, 12, or all 13 elections.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill in 1941.

Atlantic Charter

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill in 1941 after they agreed on the Atlantic Charter, a policy statement defining the Allied goals for the post-war world, which inspired many of the international agreements that shaped the world in the years after.

President Barrack Obama speaking to the people of Berlin.

Obama in Berlin

President Barrack Obama speaking to the people of Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate in 2013.

Thousands of protesters filling Epifanio de los Santos Avenue.

People Power Revolution

Thousands of protesters filling Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in 1986.

Corazon 'Cory' Aquino swearing in.

Corazon Aquino Inauguration

Corazon “Cory” Aquino swearing in as President of the Philippines in 1986.

President Rodrigo Duterte presenting a chart supposedly illustrating a drug trade network.

Duterte Drug War

President Rodrigo Duterte presenting a chart supposedly illustrating a drug trade network during a 2016 press conference.

A 2017 protest against President Duterte in Manila.

National Day of Protest

A 2017 protest against President Duterte in Manila on the 45^thanniversary of the Proclamation of Martial Law.

Supporters of President Duterte.

Duterte Supporters

Supporters of President Duterte on the National Day of Protest in 2017.

A poor neighborhood in Manila during flooding.

Poverty in Manila

A poor neighborhood in Manila during flooding in 2009.

A graph depicting the percent of the Filipino population at poverty and subsistence levels.

Estimated Poverty and Subsistence in Philippines

A graph depicting the percent of the Filipino population at poverty and subsistence levels in 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2013.

President Duterte with volunteers aiding survivors of super typhoon Haiyan.

Typhoon Response

President Duterte with volunteers aiding survivors of super typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

President Duterte visiting Filipinos living in Vietnam.

Overseas Filipinos

President Duterte visiting Filipinos living in Vietnam in 2016.

Protesters of the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision to bury the late president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Heroes Cemetery.

Marcos Is No Hero!

Protesters of the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision to bury the late president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Heroes Cemetery near Manila.

The former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaking.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno

The former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaking with supporters after Duterte ousted her from office in 2018.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in 2013.

European People’s Party

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at a 2013 meeting of the European People’s Party, a conservative and Christian democratic European political party.

Viktor Orbán delivering an anti-Communist and anti-Soviet speech.

Anti-Communist and Anti-Soviet Speech

Viktor Orbán delivering an anti-Communist and anti-Soviet speech at the reburial of Imre Nagy in 1989.

A Hungarian poster against the Trianon Treaty.

Anti-Trianon Poster

A Hungarian poster against the Trianon Treaty from 1920.

Hungarian Jews being arrested in Budapest during Nazi occupation.

Nazi Occupation

Hungarian Jews being arrested in Budapest during Nazi occupation in 1944.

A destroyed Soviet tank in Budapest.

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

A destroyed Soviet tank in Budapest during the 1956 Revolution.

János Kádár visiting schoolchildren in Budapest.

János Kádár

János Kádár visiting schoolchildren in Budapest in 1985.

Viktor Orbán addressing crowds of supporters.

Orbán Rally

Viktor Orbán addressing crowds of supporters in 2012.

Viktor Orbán on a poster referencing the Barrack Obama 'Hope' poster.

Viktor Orbán Steal Poster

Viktor Orbán on a poster referencing the Barrack Obama “Hope” poster, but with the Hungarian word for “steal” instead.

Syrian refugees striking in Budapest in 2015.

Refugee Strike

Syrian refugees striking in Budapest in 2015 to protest Hungary closing its border with Serbia.

Syrian refugees during a 2015 hunger strike in Budapest.

Refugee Strike

Syrian refugees during a 2015 hunger strike in Budapest to protest Hungary closing its borders with Serbia and forcing refugees into camps.

President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Putin and Orbán

President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a 2015 meeting in Hungary.

A billboard in Hungary.

Hungary Decides

A billboard in Hungary proclaiming “the UN wants us to pay the costs of settling and employing migrants. Hungary decides, not the UN.”

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Marc Horger, Gregory Kupsky, Zoltán Ádám , "Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism" , Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

July, 2018

https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/article/fear-and-loathing-around-world-rise-new-populism.