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Populist-Nationalism, Right and Left

Here’s a headline that a lot of people—especially among the entrenched elite—won’t want to see: “2017 Was the Year of False Promise in the Fight Against Populism: The populist wave seems like it may have crested. The data proves otherwise.” In other words, the populists are still on the march. Uh oh.

Neoliberals are pretty much just mad they couldn’t find a way to marry philosophy and popularity, while it would seem the right has.

The “populist surge” in Europe has far from peaked and is the most significant change to the European order since the end of the Cold War, a new report by former British left-wing Prime Minister Tony Blair’s own think tank has claimed.

The year 2017 was a period of almost uniform “demise” and “retreat” for Europe’s political centre-left, The Guardian and New York Times newspapers have declared.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the successor of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, laid out the power of economic nationalism and populism in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek editor Megan Murphy.

Populist leaders meeting in Prague this weekend said the EU is “killing Europe”, as they agreed to work on building an alternative model of cooperation that respects the continent’s peoples and cultures.

Austria’s anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) has finalised their coalition agreement with the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), securing several major ministries including the Interior Ministry, Defence Ministry, and Foreign Ministry.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon was the subject of the New York Times podcast “The New Washington” with hosts Michael Barbaro and Jeremy Peters on Saturday. The segment was built from excerpts of a much longer interview Peters conducted with Bannon.

WhiteHouseDossier.com editor Keith Koffler joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his new book, Bannon: Always the Rebel. Marlow praised the book as “the first biography of Steve Bannon that’s been out that does not seem like a total hit job.”

NEW YORK CITY, New York — As support for an amnesty for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a computer-based system to weed illegal aliens out of the United States workforce remains incredibly popular.

In hugely significant regional elections Sunday, populists handed the reigning Democratic Party a stinging defeat in Sicily, presaging serious trouble for the ailing center-left in next spring’s national election.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, formerly chief strategist for President Donald Trump, joined SiriusXM hosts Joel Pollak and Rebecca Mansour to look back at the 2016 presidential campaign and forward at how themes from that campaign continue to resonate in crucial political contests like the Virginia gubernatorial election

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon made a special guest appearance on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow to discuss the importance of the Breitbart News audience to the 2016 election, and to the ongoing political debate in America.

Despite winning the Czech election last month and being given a mandate by Czech President Miloš Zeman to form a new government, populist billionaire Andrej Babiš is finding it difficult to get establishment parties on board to create a working coalition.

Henry Olsen, author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, discussed the similarities between the Reagan and Trump coalitions with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Steve Bannon’s “economic nationalism” has much in common with the civic republicanism liberals once prescribed. These are ideas worth debating — not marginalizing using the left’s familiar shrieks of racism.

Since globalization has “deeply altered the previous international order,” Pope Francis said Friday, humanity must rethink “the figure and the role of the nation-state” in this new world order.

In what is sure to become an instant classic, Laura Ingraham’s new book “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump” takes readers on a fast-paced ride through the last five decades to reveal how the battles between movement conservatives and GOP Establishment elites primed the pump for the populist revolution Donald Trump’s historic victory ushered in.

A new advertisement looks to tap into the surging populist sentiments in America to pressure Democrats to support the Trump administration’s framework for tax reform.

In an exclusive interview, the deputy chairwoman of Germany’s populist, Eurosceptic party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), spoke with Breitbart News about immigration, Islam, and America.

The deputy chairwoman and one of the public faces of Germany’s populist, euro-skeptic AfD party says that despite pejorative labels of “far right” her party is staunchly pro-Israel and looks to it as a role model.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon discussed Judge Roy Moore’s Tuesday night victory in the Alabama Senate primary on Wednesday morning’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM.

As Germany gears up for next Sunday’s federal elections, there is a growing fear among the nation’s elite establishment that the conservative AfD party will do considerably better than polls indicate.

Ann Coulter, author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Sunday to talk about President Trump’s apparent retreat from the positions he took on illegal immigration and border security during his campaign.

The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent writes that former White House chief strategist and current Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon is “is planning to escalate his war with the GOP establishment, by promoting primary challengers who will run against GOP incumbents on a platform that is fully faithful” to the populist and economic nationalist issues that got President Trump elected in 2016.

PFORZHEIM, Germany (AP) — A nationalist party that wants Germany to close its borders to migrants, leave Europe’s common currency and end sanctions against Russia is predicted to enter Parliament for the first time this month, propelled by voters’ anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to let over a million refugees into the country since 2015.

Brexit and the rise of UKIP were “inextricably linked” to the global populist surge of 2016, acting as a predictor for events elsewhere, former White House Chief Strategist and Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon has said.

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told Charlie Rose that President Donald Trump combined Jacksonian populism and Hamiltonian economic nationalism to galvanize working-class Americans of all backgrounds to win the White House.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon strongly stated in a Sunday interview with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose that American citizens of “every nationality, every race, every religion, every sexual preference” are “part of this populist economic nationalist movement.”

NBC’s Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker describe “Steve Bannon and the Breitbart base” as “a possible monkey wrench” in the plans of globalist White House aides and establishment Republicans heading into this month’s high-stakes legislative fight.

With the health care debacle in the rear view mirror for the time being, the consensus is that the administration badly needs a victory this year on tax reform if the president is to regain the political momentum he lost by following the lead of the hapless GOP congressional leadership who sold him on Obamacare repeal as an early, easy win.

President Trump’s former chief strategist and current Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon invited the editors of The Economist to his home for a candid discussion about the future of the populist economic nationalist movement and the civilizational challenges that will pit “the Judeo-Christian liberal West” against globalist mercantilist forces from China to Silicon Valley.

Kayleigh McEnany, formerly of CNN and now the Republican National Committee’s new spokeswoman, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to stress the importance that Republicans unify behind President Trump’s agenda.

The Democratic Party’s attempt to pivot away from the fading Russia controversy, and move to an economic message as a way to reclaim their lost voters, has so far failed to drum up enthusiasm — even among Democrats.

President Trump is taking a more populist approach to health care in the wake of congressional Republicans’ inability to repeal-and-replace Obamacare — putting both insurance companies and Congress on notice for being exempt from the unpopular law.

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly upending traditional right/left divides on tax policy and pushing for a populist tax reform.