Hacking Democracy
Thanks to information technology, populist movements have increasingly mobilized public opinion and gained traction for people like the U.S.'s Donald Trump, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, and Hungary's Viktor Orban. Above all, populism is a set of techniques whose main feature is opportunism: Populists refuse to take sides, either left or right. They claim an exclusive capacity to represent the people.
Thanks to information technology, populist movements have increasingly mobilized public opinion and gained traction for people like the U.S.'s Donald Trump, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, and Hungary's Viktor Orban. Above all, populism is a set of techniques whose main feature is opportunism: Populists refuse to take sides, either left or right. They claim an exclusive capacity to represent the people.
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