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line with populist putsches of
old.
Which brings forth the har-
rowing backdrop of truth behind
this sweltering discord - that
beyond all the jarring startle-
ments of such a socio-political
fiasco, it is still far from unique
to the bloodied annals of his-
tory whose ledgers run deep
red. From the roman era, to the
reformation era; from the great
war, to the great depression,
the testy cherry of populism has
forever been ripe for megalo-
maniac usurpation in times of
distress & disarray, authenticity
of which, is moot.
THE UNSILENT contemporary glances over the
To wit, the slightest of
MAJORITY, HOW CENTURIES OF
INSTITUTIONALLY
POPULISM DEMOCRATIC
STABILITY
STANDS
STUMPED
IN VOGUE PRIMORDIAL POPULISM.
IN THE FACE OF
Short-form Article,
Raghu R. Rathore
It was a midwinter election campaign clamouring
Wednesday. With the subdued against the sway of reality – in
sun swooping across a run-of- denial of the writings on the
the-mill noon, a palpable wave wall - is not something political
of seething passion reeked observers, or even the average
across the national mall down in joe, would be forgetting in a
Washington DC. As a conflated hurry. It stands clear in its infa-
horde of shaken resolves tee- my as the crescendoing pinna-
tered with pangs of acrimony, cle of the paramount prolixity of
a parlaying flock of puckered populist political proselytizing
patriots plundering over the along ideological lines. And as
precipice of rallying outcries, former California Governor Ar-
and eventually, as the beloved nold Schwarzenegger sombrely
tangerine pariah they oh-so put forth, “It was the United
empathically championed took States’ Kristallnacht… shattered
to his pulpit. Disaster ensued. were our ideals that we took for
That 6th January storm- granted”, and indeed, in more
ing of the US’ Capitoline hill ways than one, the ostensibly
by swarms of begrudgingly astounding nature of the dia-
disgruntled zealots of a failed bolical debacle fell awfully in
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