Democrat Who Dismantled Obama’s Grassroots Machine Now Gives Advice—Here’s the Problem

Jim Messina offers Democrats advice—but ignores how dismantling Obama’s grassroots machine weakened the party’s ability to persuade and win voters.

🤦🏻‍♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/

#politics #europe #denmark #populism #centrism

The rise of One Nation isn’t random. It follows a pattern we’ve seen in plenty of other countries.
Their support skews older, more regional, and often among people who feel left behind by the economy. There’s usually distrust in the major parties, anxiety about immigration and cultural change, and a sense that politics stopped listening.
But that’s only part of it. Politics itself has become a kind of entertainment, where conflict and outrage pull more attention than actual policy. It’s the same dynamic that lifted Trump. Figures like Pauline Hanson fit perfectly into that kind of media cycle — provocative, not detailed.
Throw in a media landscape that thrives on division, plus backing from the likes of Gina Rinehart, and you’ve got the right conditions.
This isn’t just about voters. It’s about a political system that rewards noise over substance.

#auspol #onenation #media #populism

Onderzoek toont link tussen financiële onzekerheid en populistische stem

Niet immigratie, zoals vaak wordt verondersteld, maar ontevredenheid over de eigen financiële situatie en het werk zijn de grootste drijfveer voor stemmers om op anti-establishment partijen te stemmen, schrijft Antonucci. Populistische partijen blijken volgens het onderzoek garen te spinnen bij een toenemend gevoel van ontevredenheid.

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/10597915/onderzoek-toont-link-tussen-financiele-onzekerheid-en-populistische-stem #populism #politics

War and the nihilist cult of death
In the name of Jesus

"Like with many Maga men performing puerile stunts for the manosphere, the fragile ego inside seems incapable of facing up to the reality of what has been unleashed so thoughtlessly." Professor Jan-Werner Mueller >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/23/pete-hegseth-nihilist-cult
#war #violence #manosphere #FossilFuels #destruction #populism

“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation"
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canadian politician (1967)

Unless you are directly and *personally* involved and adversely affected by an individual, mind your own fucking business.

The State even more so, especially when using religion to justify prejudices. And especially those governments whose Constitution specifically state there should be separation between Church and State.

#humanrights #government #populism #religion #usa