AUTHOR=Hirschmann Nancy J. 

TITLE=Populism and Protest

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sociology

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235

DOI=10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235

ISSN=2297-7775

ABSTRACT=<p>The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism. I argue that peaceful, popular protest is an important tool to resist white patriarchal populist authoritarianism.</p>