Don’t Fear the People
Commentary
For better or for worse, Donald J. Trump has come to represent the populist movement in the United States. And as the Biden administration escalates its cold civil war against Trump, and the corporate media against his followers and supporters, a very important question goes unanswered in the noise. Do populists, as represented by the MAGA movement, present a threat to democracy, as the establishment tells us? Or are they actually an expression of the democratic will of a large group of ordinary people?
To get an answer, I spoke to Ben Harnwell, who, in his role as the international editor for the very popular daily news podcast “Steve Bannon’s WarRoom,” is the MAGA voice in Europe. Bannon and his juggernaut of a show are widely blamed—or credited, depending on who you ask—with the continuing popularity of Trump and his populist America First movement, as evidenced in recent weeks by Kari Lake’s victory in Arizona and Liz Cheney’s defeat in Wyoming….