Populists combine nationalism with speed rhetoric and a govern-by-chaos doctrine

Evidence

Seemingly incongruent combinations of Pentecostalist revivalism, global trade wars, Hindu nationalism, aggressive interest-rate speculation, Euroscepticism, and so on have been deployed rhetorically alongside an emphasis on “acting swiftly and decisively” and against the “slowness” of liberal democracy. Such discourses are in turn supplemented by a “govern-by-chaos” doctrine, wielded by populist leaders against the technocratic rationality of their neoliberal predecessors. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 251

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘govern-by-chaos’ as the populist doctrine deploying uncertainty against neoliberal technocratic rationality.
• XREF: connects to: Gilded Age agrarian populists combined speculative imagination with nativism and racism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 439; Regressive populism and speculative finance are forming new alliances. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 57; Populist attacks on central banks intensified while technocratic crisis responses expanded — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 702 (+5 more)