Nationalism paired with populism breeds nostalgia and resentment politics

Evidence

In Bonikowski et al. (2019), sociologist Bart Bonikowski explains how populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism can operate as mutually constitutive concepts. Nationalism combined with populism creates conditions for the politics of nostalgia and resentment, while populism and authoritarianism enable the framing of the political opposition as the “morally corrupt enemy of the nation” allowing for exceptional measures to be taken against them, even those that violate the norms of democracy. Christian nationalism, therefore, provides a cultural framework where fear, nostalgia, and resentment are cultivated, and the pairing of this with populism and authoritarian tendencies highlights the threat it poses to a pluralistic democracy. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 785

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful gloss of how three contested concepts interlock and what each pairing yields.
• XREF: connects to: Unequal austerity generates populism, nationalism, and violent movement instead of revenue — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 63; Populists combine nationalism with speed rhetoric and a govern-by-chaos doctrine — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 251; Idealizing a past by stripping its material basis persists as cultural nationalism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 472 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Resurgent nationalism fuses invented tradition with narcissistic minor-difference resentment. #expands (0.88)
• Populists combine nationalism with speed rhetoric and a govern-by-chaos doctrine #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 251
• Yearning for a precolonial essence traps politics in the past instead of the present #exemplifies (0.85)
• Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities #expands (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382
• Idealizing a past by stripping its material basis persists as cultural nationalism #exemplifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 472