Citations:sadopopulism

English citations of sadopopulism

• 2019 November 5, Fintan O'Toole, The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism, Liveright Publishing, →ISBN:

  […] 'sadopopulism', in which people are willing to inflict pain on themselves so long as they can believe that, in the same moment, they are making their enemies hurt more: 'such a voter is changing the currency of politics from achievement […]'

• (Can we date this quote?), Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, punctum books, →ISBN, page 169:

  Hélène Berr does not quite see is how this self-sabotage and surrender can lead to massive numbers of dead people, either by active extermination, as in the Nazi example and other genocides, or, as is more often the case today, through "sadopopulism"; in other words, passive neglect by allowing disease, poisoning, or environmental disasters to run rampant among outgroups whose lives are judged meaningless, worthless, or expendable by those in charge.27 It's hardly […]

• 2021, Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson, Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age, Haymarket Books (→ISBN)

  " […] people are willing to inflict pain on themselves so long as they can believe that in the same moment, they are making their enemies hurt more." Sadopopulism does not of course affect all social classes equally. […]

• 2021, Brynn Tannehill, American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy, Transgress Press (→ISBN), page 108:

  Historian Timothy Snyder called this phenomenon sadopopulism in his book The Road to Unfreedom. He describes sadopopulism as a political movement wherein an oligarchy makes great promises to its base but ends up hurting them deliberately so that the base will look to the leader more to stop the pain.