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bolical debacle fell awfully in
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
THE UNSILENT of which, is moot.
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
I was a midwinter disgruntled zealots of a failed
Wednesday. With the
election campaign clamouring
against the sway of reality – in
subdued sun swoop-
ing across a run-
H of-the-mill noon, a denial of the writings on the
wall - is not something political
palpable wave of seething pas observers, or even the average
tional mall down in Washington joe, would be forgetting in a
DC. As a conflated horde of hurry. It stands clear in its infa-
shaken resolves teetered with my as the crescendoing pinna-
pangs of acrimony, a parlay- cle of the paramount prolixity of
ing flock of puckered patriots populist political proselytizing
plundering over the precipice o along ideological lines. And as
f rallying outcries, and eventu- former California Governor Ar-
ally, as the beloved tangerine nold Schwarzenegger sombrely
pariah they oh-so empathically put forth, “It was the United
championed took to his pulpit. States’ Kristallnacht… shattered
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-
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