by Timmy Lee | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
On November 7th, 4 days after Election Day, Joe Biden was projected to have defeated President Donald Trump and declared to be the 46th President of the United States by all major news sources, including Fox News. The reaction to Biden’s win from Trump, his cabinet...
by Maggie Habib | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
Since the presidential election, QAnon followers have been forced to reckon with an identity crisis. “Q” failed to post for over a week after the election, and in that time questions about his legitimacy began to emerge among his followers. If the master plan was for...
by Ed Schmeltzer | Nov 17, 2020 | University of Chicago
As the 2020 election winds down and the Democratic Party has, by all reputable accounts, been confirmed as the victor, Op-Eds across the internet have been released mourning the death of the projected Democratic ‘blue wave’. This was the hoped-for upsurge in...
by Preeya Patel | Nov 17, 2020 | University of Chicago
One of the specific criteria of populist leaders according to Jan-Werner Müller is antipluralism. He writes, “[Populists] claim that they and they alone represent the people.” [1] Instead of recognizing “the people” as a diverse set of groups with different identities...
by Kim Suheun | Nov 9, 2020 | University of Chicago
The core of populism is in creating an image of the people and representing them to justify political power. [1] It is based on a myth as “the people” as a singular entity does not exist. A populist idealizes the “people” to be pure and holy against a contrasting...
