Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders

Evidence

There is a growing consensus that crises, whether real or imagined, plays a key role in growing popular support for both nationalist and populist leaders. National crises pose a threat to a community’s sense of external security. Brubaker (2017) writes that immigration inflows, demographic shifts, or trade imbalances that appear to threaten or weaken the status of the dominant group within the state can lead to growing alienation of individuals from the state. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s core question: external threats (even manufactured ones) sustaining in-group solidarity. — connects to: Sacralized national identity emerges amid state collapse crises to rally mobilization — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1466; Established opinion and myths can be both symptom and cause of political crisis — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 881; Current crises express immanent speculative politics rather than an interregnum awaiting new birth — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 363 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Nativism is a distinct phenomenon, a defensive nationalism of perceived national crisis #expands (0.84) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 971
• Black nationalism persists as a latent force that recurs during crises #exemplifies (0.82)
• Current crises express immanent speculative politics rather than an interregnum awaiting new birth #complicates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 363
• Established opinion and myths can be both symptom and cause of political crisis #expands (0.78) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 881