{"id":851730,"date":"2022-10-24T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=261045"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:02:08","slug":"out-of-the-graveyard-the-return-of-the-pluto-populists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/24\/out-of-the-graveyard-the-return-of-the-pluto-populists\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Graveyard: the Return of the Pluto-Populists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The absurdities of Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro and Berlusconi are a diversion from trying to analyse how this gruesome quartet ever gained power in the first place and have been able to make comebacks despite appalling records of incompetence and corruption. The phrase \u201cpopulist nationalist\u201d is a little misleading and a better one might be \u201cpluto-populist\u201d. Trump supporters at the Republican convention in 2016 described him ludicrously as \u201ca blue-collar billionaire\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/24\/out-of-the-graveyard-the-return-of-the-pluto-populists\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/24\/out-of-the-graveyard-the-return-of-the-pluto-populists\/\">Out of the Graveyard: the Return of the Pluto-Populists<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/24\/out-of-the-graveyard-the-return-of-the-pluto-populists\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absurdities of Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro and Berlusconi are a diversion from trying to analyse how this gruesome quartet ever gained power in the first place and have been able to make comebacks despite appalling records of incompetence and corrupt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851731,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851730\/revisions\/851731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}