DA LEGGERE
Sulla nuova rabbia politica, in America: Making Sense of the New Political Anger, Sam Tanenhaus, nyt; The rise of Tea Party activism, Ben McGrath sul newyorker; Why Obama should play to populism, Simon Schama, ft; e l'intelligente e fine - come sempre - analisi di David Brooks sul populismo, "These two attitudes — populism and elitism — seem different, but they’re really mirror images of one another. They both assume a country fundamentally divided. They both describe politics as a class struggle between the enlightened and the corrupt, the pure and the betrayers... So it’s easy to see the seductiveness of populism. Nonetheless, it nearly always fails. The history of populism, going back to William Jennings Bryan, is generally a history of defeat.
That’s because voters aren’t as stupid as the populists imagine. Voters are capable of holding two ideas in their heads at one time: First, that the rich and the powerful do rig the game in their own favor; and second, that simply bashing the rich and the powerful will still not solve the country’s problems." nyt.