Populism in Greece and the United States

Venizelos, Giorgos

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“…Barack Obama who was not conventionally classified as a populist, for example, launched and relied on new forms of social media, while Syriza in Greece, a party that is conventionally defined as populist, did not really rely on digital media (in the way populist Movimento Cinque Stelle in Italy did). For a thorough theoretical and empirical exploration of the relationship between digital media and populism, see Venizelos (2020). 13.…”

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Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification

Venizelos

2022

Critical Sociology

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Donald Trump’s style is often described as provocative and his administration as catastrophic. Despite this, his popularity remained high throughout his term in office, and in the 2020 US elections, he received 10 million votes more than in 2016. This paper investigates the paradox of political identification through a discursive, performative and stylistic framework. It argues that policy outcomes and rhetorical consistency do not suffice in understanding identification. Rather, transgression – which is typical of populist performativity – plays a pivotal role in interpellating affective collective subjectivities. This article investigates the case of Donald Trump, from his emergence in 2015 until the 2021 Capitol insurgence. It employs discourse and visual analysis to study Trump’s rhetoric and performativity, integrating this with in-depth interviews and ethnographic research to examine the ways his style resonated with his supporters. It concludes that charismatic performativity and transgression play a crucial role in political identification regardless of the quality of institutional performance.

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Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification

Venizelos

2022

Critical Sociology

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“…At any rate, there is no populist guideline on how to nationalize the railways or cancel austerity measures (this is the task of policy design), and there is no specific policy that can be defined as populist 10 . To return to the SYRIZA experience, not only populism as a communicational device did not cease to exist during the 4 years in office but it often served as the main discursive repertoire employed by the governing party (Venizelos, 2020). Was this the main reason populist SYRIZA failed in power or was it the reason that sustained it in power despite its failure?…”

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Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism

Venizelos

Stavrakakis

2022

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Populism in Greece and the United States

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Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification

Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification

Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism

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