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Populism, Violence, and the “De-civilizing” Process

If Americans want to avoid revolution, mitigate violence, and keep a law-based world, they need a progressive movement to open up democracy to average citizens, and bridge the cultural gap between elites and broader American society.

by Rachel Kleinfeld
published by
Eurasia Group Foundation
 on December 19, 2016

Source: Eurasia Group Foundation

Speaking to the Eurasia Group Foundation, Carnegie’s Rachel Kleinfeld argued that populism isn’t going to work in the United States. If Americans want to avoid revolution, mitigate violence, and keep a law-based world, they need a progressive movement to open up democracy to average citizens, and bridge the cultural gap between elites and broader American society, she asserted.

Watch the broadcast from the Eurasia Group Foundation.

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