Category: Politics
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Snakes Selling Snake Oil: How The Right Co-Opted The Rhetoric Of Being “Anti-Corruption”
From Bolsonaro to Trump, the rise of the far right around the world has been characterised in part by the promise to tackle widespread corruption. Anti-corruption posturing is one of the many ways that this New Right (or “alt-right”) have managed to position themselves as somehow outside the mainstream of contemporary politics, as being anti-establishment.…