A Guideline for the Populist Moment – by Alexander Dugin, with Commentary

https://openrevolt.info/2019/06/14/the-populist-moment-alexander-dugin-with-commentary/?fbclid=IwAR2-x90xTQBV2-5YdAGXXF2JdEJu26iLJntTTCrfLP4SyGBQv-3wJBrdkcw
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As of late, European intellectuals are discussing a new political concept that is becoming increasingly relevant: the ‘populist moment.’
They are worried by left-wing Schmittians in the likes of Chantal Mouffe on the one hand and, on the other hand, the brilliant ideologist of European conservatives and the “New Right,” the most formidable and influential figure of intellectual Europe, the philosopher Alain de Benoist. Both right and left are publishing texts dedicated to the populist moment, each offering their own different interpretations, arguments, and predictions for the future.
What is the populist moment?
First of all, it is the emergence in politics of leaders who become extremely popular by appealing to the broad masses while not concerning themselves with the ideological coherence of their platforms and positions. These are first and foremost Putin and Trump, whose views are difficult to qualify in conventional categories of right, left, etc. Such leaders understand and feel society, what it genuinely wants, what it is striving for, what it thinks, what it fears, and they answer these expectations directly without bothering to couch such in some kind of system. And this is working better and better. Whether by accident or system failure, this is gradually becoming a trend. After Trump, this is already a global reality that cannot be ignored.
Secondly, Liberal Democracy is in blatant, complete crisis. Wherever it tries to act openly and directly insist on its ideological values – human rights, gender politics, cosmopolitanism, the open society, globalization, etc. – its representatives consistently suffer failure. Liberalism still controls many spheres such as global finance, the global corporate media, culture, education, and technology, but in society it is already essentially rejected. The end of history did not happen and Fukuyama himself, like a complete loser, is now muttering about how the United States is, you see, a failed state. Liberalism is dead. But it is not its old enemies, Communism and Fascism, that destroyed it, but something new: Populism. Any populist, whether right or left, can now beat any liberal.