The status of facts and their use in politics hasn’t changed as a result of Donald Trump’s election.
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In politics, alternative facts exist. And they always have.
Donald Trump may not have been the 1%’s preferred candidate, but he embodied its message.
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Making self-interest seem normal and a commitment to fairness an elite aberration has been a long-term project.
An aerial shot of discarded life jackets on the Greek island of Lesvos.
Tasos Markou
In late 2015, 200,000 refugees a month were arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos. Tasos Markou went there to photograph their plight - and ended up joining the locals to help the new arrivals.
Donald Trump constantly invoked the idea of political correctness gone mad in his presidential campaign.
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Populist leaders not only attack the institutions of global capital, they also disregard the checks and balances of institutional democracy.
Surely, things were easier in the past.
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There has been much attention paid to the widespread resurgence of populism. Restorationism in Western democracies is a subset of this.