TheAltWorld Don’t Call It Populism: How Trump Protects the System He Pretends to Fight, w/ Vijay Prashad
- Rania Khalek
- Tuesday 11 Feb 25
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Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, joins the show to unpack a critical question: As Donald Trump’s return to the White House emboldens far-right movements across the North Atlantic, do these forces actually challenge neoliberalism—or are they merely its latest iteration?
Prashad argues that the far right, despite its populist rhetoric, remains tied to the neoliberal economic and military policies they claim to oppose.
Trump’s far-right know how to weaponize and bend the system to their will, explains @vijayprashad
, “Unlike fascists, they understand that the system, within existing state institutions, enable them to go as far as they can.”
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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