How You Can Beat (Far-right) Populism

A critique of ‘progressives’, who Hyman suggests “are to blame for Trump. We created him. We gave him, and other far-right populists, the space to manoeuvre and the mistakes to exploit.” Hyman encourages a departure from the “seven deadly sins” of “the sensible people”: that ‘we’ are (or are seen to be): “Patronising, Complacent, Abstract, Censorious, Gullible, Conservative and Bland.” He accuses us of “not listening hard enough”, needing more humility and reflection, and that we must create “our own robust edifice,” with “better ideas, better narratives, better policies and better communication. It needs all of them in a powerful brew – brought together with a confidence and a zest that connects with the public,” and through that we need to tell “a new narrative about the nation” so that we can “become the disruptors again. Not by aping the far right, but by being the agents of change, the builders of a better future.” Also listen here.