Pluralism shifts integration burden to politics, fueling populist backlash among the disadvantaged

Evidence

Therefore, the political culture can no longer coincide with the traditional majority culture. Even in immigration societies such as the United States, this differentiation process is experienced as painful: it is inducing populist reactions everywhere – not exclusively, but especially, among disadvantaged members of societies. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 77

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  • XREF: Connects to the 1962 ā€˜Structural Transformation’ thesis about the public sphere’s base shifting as well as to deliberative-democracy critiques; also echoes the class-not-culture reading of populism in this new essay. — connects to: Social pluralism shifts integration burden from lifeworlds to political citizenship. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 103; Demographic projections of a majority-minority America fueled populist backlash politics — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 63

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