Electoral diagonalism has become a global right-wing political strategy

Evidence

Flush with dollars from tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel, and endorsed by Trump, they promise a mix-and-match of bringing back factory jobs that pay family-supporting wages, building the border wall, fighting the toxic drug supply, liberating speech from Big Tech, and banning “woke” curricula. Among those building careers around versions of this platform in the United States are JD Vance in Ohio, Josh Hawley in Missouri, and Kari Lake, who narrowly lost her bid to become governor of Arizona (and claimed, of course, that the election was stolen). Very similar versions of electoral diagonalism have taken root in countries around the world, from Sweden to Brazil. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 403

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete roster of diagonalism’s US and international political carriers.
• XREF: connects to: Social media microtargeting drove Brazil’s 2018 far-right electoral outcome — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1336