| Titre | LA RHÉTORIQUE POPULISTE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Mélandri | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 56, octobre-décembre 1997 Les populismes | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | LES POPULISMES |
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| Page | 184-200 | |
| Résumé anglais | Populist rhetoric in the United States, Pierre Melandri. In the last two centuries, used simultaneously or one after the other by Republicans and Democrats, the populist discourse, revelator of the mood of the country, is not the reflection of a precise school of thought in the United States. Nourished by resentment, frustrations and nostalgia of a former order in which social status and cultural identities were supposed to be stronger, American populism is fundamentally ambivalent. At the end of the 19th century, it claimed to defend the poor whites hit by the economic and social consequences of the Civil War; after the Second World War, it was against the recognition of the extension of the rights of minorities; after 1973, the Republicans exploited the fear of decline that haunted many Americans. Thus, each thrust of populism has its roots in an increase of troubles, whether economic or social. | |
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