The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism. I argue that peaceful, popular protest is an important tool to resist white patriarchal populist authoritarianism.
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Hirschmann, N. J. (2021). Populism and Protest. Frontiers in Sociology, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235
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