A populist proposal to auction off distressed federal government assets, such as loans, to pay for infrastructure and other policy priorities for working-class Americans is gaining renewed interest ahead of former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week. Back in Trump’s first term in office, a bipartisan group of congressmen—Rep. Mike Kelly
Exclusive: Populist Proposal to Auction Distressed Government Assets to Raise over $1.1 Trillion for Trump’s Working-Class Agenda Gains Renewed Interest
Pakistani Imam Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison over Fatwa Against Populist Leader Geert Wilders
In a landmark case, the Netherlands has sentenced two Pakistanis to prison for calling on their followers to murder Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders. The court in The Hague sentenced 56-year-old Imam Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali to 14 years in prison over his issuing of a fatwa death warrant on the head of Party for Freedom
Spain: Veteran Populist Lawmaker ‘Shot in Face’ by Motorcycle Getaway Gunman
Getty Images / Collage A retired Spanish politician, a former leader of the main parliamentary opposition party and founder of the second largest opposition party, was shot in the face as he walked out of church on Thursday. 78-year-old Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a retired politician, appears to have narrowly survived what may have been an assassination
Seven Police Injured After Riots in Spanish Mass Migration Area During Visit of Populist Leader
Two people were arrested and seven police were injured following rioting, allegedly involving Moroccan migrants, in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta during a visit by populist VOX party leader Santiago Abascal. Violence broke out in the city, which is located on the North African coast and borders Morocco, during a visit to the…
Populist Uprisings and the Inversion of Inflation
Today’s populism echoes that of the 1890’s, but changes to the economy have muddied the waters.Hotly contested elections are nothing new in this country, nor are elections fought around themes of populism. These battles have been fought as far back as the first iteration of American populism with James Weaver and his protégé William Jennings…
MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN: Trump’s Dialogue With Italy Is A Boon To The Populist Revolution.
President Donald Trump’s meeting with the new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday represents more than backslapping, especially to a Europe searching for American support against liberalism gone wild. Across Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, and Brexit Britain, the populist-nationalist movement is searching for air support from someone they regard as the greatest […]
Hungary’s Viktor Orban: populist, patriot and set to be PM again.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls it a “historic victory” in Sunday’s parlimentary election which will give him a third consecutive term in office (AFP Photo/ATTILA KISBENEDEK) Budapest (AFP) – Hungary’s all-powerful premier Viktor Orban, his party victorious in elections Sunday, is the self-styled defender of Christian Europe against the “poison” of immigration, an admirer […]
DONALD TRUMP DELIVERS CENTER-RIGHT POPULIST TAX PLAN
Sometimes presidential candidate Donald Trump seems to be winging it, but other times he acts with clockwork timing and political precision. The unveiling of his tax plan comes at exactly the right moment, when he needed to deliver something substantive. Its contents are a mixture of center-right reforms and populist juice that will probably go […]
Republicans cast into turmoil as Donald Trump rides the populist surge
For Donald Trump the entrepreneur, it was a damaging week. Two major television networks severed ties, Macy’s dropped his clothing line and Carlos Slim, the even richer Mexican tycoon, ended a joint venture with him. But for Donald Trump the inveterate showman and Republican challenger for president, the week was a triumph as he climbed […]