The Little Black Book of the Populist Right

The spectre of the Populist Right haunts our politics: Farage and Trump, Orban and Le Pen. Why and how has this reactionary movement managed to redraw the political map, from Warsaw via Workington to Wisconsin? At last, in one short book, an authoritative, accessible history and analysis of the Populist Right. How its ideology of national-populism rewrote the right’s playbook, throwing up charismatic, often racist leaders, who appealed to new coalitions of abandoned voters. How descendants of the interwar far right sanitised their parties, new anti-immigration movements emerged in Europe, and the Populist Right invaded existing mainstream parties in Britain and America. And how and why national-populism created a new, conspiratorial narrative as a weapon in a virulent new culture war. Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar have been studying the growth of the populist right for most of this century. Their book exposes the fallacies, flaws and fantasies of national populism, and ends by showing how progressives can fight back.