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What is populism and how is it shaping global politics?

Even if France's populist candidate Marine Le Pen doesn't win in the election, her movement isn't going away. It's part of a global trend. Read the full transcript below. NOTE: This video incorrectly identifies Sheri Berman as a political science professor at Barnard University. The institution is actually Barnard College. Subscribe to our channel!    / thinkprogressvideo   Moving news forward. ThinkProgress is a news site dedicated to providing our readers with rigorous reporting and analysis from a progressive perspective. For more, check out http://thinkprogress.org/. Check more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/thinkprogress... Follow ThinkProgress on Twitter:   / thinkprogress   And on Facebook:   / thinkprogress   TRANSCRIPT Friday, May 5, 2017 SHERI BERMAN, Barnard University: Populism can be very hard to define because it varies from national context to national context. The one thing that parties, movements, politicians who are described as populists tend to share is this insistence that traditional elites and institutions are ignoring the demands and the needs of the masses. There’s a very “us versus them” quality to populism.They’re really a consequence of other parties and institutions failures, rather than the cause of them. With left wing populists, the enemy is tends to be a sort of financial or business type of elite. In a lot of other countries, the enemy may be immigrants, people who look different than us, people who think different than us. The social and economic problems that Europe is currently grappling with started decades ago and have sort of gradually increased over time. So what we really had was this kind of conflation of economic and social problems that really I think, push a lot of voters to embrace radical change. The upcoming French elections provide us with a great prism through which to understand the meaning and the rise of populism. Marine Le Pen who represents the national front has turned herself into an incredibly powerful figure. MARINE LE PEN, National Front candidate for president: The time has come to free the French people of the arrogant elite who seek to tell you how to live your life. Because, yes, I am the candidate of the people. BERMAN: Should Macron win and not manage to convince voters afterwards that his program can actually solve their problems; we should expect her to come back in the next presidential election even stronger. Germany, along with France remains the main player, the main power in Europe so what happens there really has a huge impact outside of the country’s borders. ALEXANDER GAULAND, Alternative for Germany co-leader: We want to keep our home country, keep our identity, and we are proud to be German. BERMAN: The populist right, the Alternative for Germany, was just a few months ago predicted to do quite well at the national elections. Now it seems to have declined, somewhat partially due to infighting. Historically of course, because of Germany’s past, there’s been a real barrier to the rise of far right populism in Germany. So the fact that we’re even seeing seeds of it, is really a reflection of how deeply the structural shifts in European political life go. The Netherlands, the populist there was predicted to come out on top. Even though Wilders did not win, he did manage to increase his vote. So, I wouldn’t take the election result as a sign of absolute defeat but a sign that we have to continue to worry about the underlying trends that fed the rise of these parties. It’s much more dangerous in a way in places like Poland and Hungary because the institutions and the norms of democracy are much weaker and therefore much easier to maneuver around or even overthrow. The real danger with populism, right, is that it shifts from populism to authoritarianism. We’ve seen that happen in Hungary, we’ve seen that happen in Turkey. It also of course happened in Venezuela. And people are very worried about something like that happening in a place like Poland. But if we think about populism as a consequence of rising dissatisfaction and the inability of elites and institutions to deal with it; then there could potentially be a silver lining in populism. Populists tend to raise issues that a lot of people are concerned about. They tend to focus on problems that are not being addressed. If traditional elites and institutions can look and say hey we better figure out better ways of dealing with these issues and concerns, then populists will have performed oddly enough a kind of backhanded service. If not, we can expect the populists to continue to grow in support, and probably the problems not to be absolutely addressed.