Right-wing radicalism’s rise shows ordinary citizens will mobilize politically.
Evidence
And the scepticism concerning citizens’ willingness to participate in politics under normal circumstances would have to be re-examined in view of the surprising level of political commitment that we are currently witnessing in the wake of growing right-wing radicalism. This does not confirm scepticism concerning the ability and willingness to respond to political messages even among strata that tend to be of lower social status and have a comparatively lower level of formal education. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 103
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: the unsettling case that right-wing populist mobilization is evidence FOR deliberative capacity, not against it.