This Week’s RNC Highlighted the Right’s Strategy for Courting the Working Class
“An article [politicalresearch.org] published in 2016 by Political Research Associates (PRA), a social justice think tank, notes that ‘right-wing A style of politics that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Such movements can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. Learn more can act as both a precursor and a building block of A form of far-right populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as transcending all other loyalties. Learn more , with anti-elitist A mode of political explanation that assumes a vast insidious plot against the common good. Learn more and ethnocentric Blaming a person or group wrongfully for some problem, especially for other people’s misdeeds. Scapegoating deflects people’s anger and grievances away from the real causes of a social problem onto a target group demonized as malevolent wrongdoers. Learn more as shared elements.’”