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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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'populism' vs 'the people'

The central thesis of this study is that systematic use of the term populism is a post-war phenomenon which develops in exact proportion to the disuse of the term ‘the people’: the more peripheral the people in political discourse, the more central populism becomes.

—p.15 New Left Review 82 Populism without the People (5) by Marco D'Eramo
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jalopies

'scrapping’ the current leadership of his Democratic Party, relegating it to the role of an old jalopy

—p.14 Populism without the People (5) by Marco D'Eramo
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inexpiably

Be assured, France will never bear any name but one in the mind of Europe; that inexpiable name, which is also its true and eternal one—the Revolution

quoting Jules Michelet in Le Peuple

—p.10 Populism without the People (5) missing author
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inveigh

Le Peuple inveighs against those well-born writers who deign to leave their salons only to describe the tiny minority of delinquents that permits them to reinforce the police

—p.10 Populism without the People (5) by Marco D'Eramo
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paeans

It was entitled Le Peuple and offered a romantic paean to its subject.

—p.10 Populism without the People (5) by Marco D'Eramo
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