Overview: Investigates how populist discourse is structured in order to appeal to the people and foster multiclass coalitions.Reveals an essential, universal form to populist discourse, as evidence by its preseUsing the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.S. and Latin American speeches and articles covering Betancourt’s Acción Democrática, Chávez, McCarthyism, and the Tea Party. In so doing, he reveals an essential structure to populist discourse: reference to the "opposition" as a representation of the persistence of social confli
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