# Let them Eat Tweets. How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
**Date de l'événement :** 16/02/2021
* Publié le 16/02/2021

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[Vidéo 1](https://soundcloud.com/contact-cee/paul-pierson-16-february-2021?in=contact-cee/sets/sgcee-general-seminar) 

## Description
The book "Let Them Eat Tweets" situates Donald Trump’s ascendance in the broader currents of American political development. Unlike many variants of "right-wing populism" the American version represents a curious hybrid of populism and plutocracy. Although American right-wing populism has real social roots, it has long been nurtured by powerful elites seeking to undercut support for modern structures of economic regulation and the welfare state. Steeply rising inequality in the United States generated an acute form of what Daniel Ziblatt has termed "the conservative dilemma." Over the past few decades, the Republican Party rejected a path of economic moderation. Instead, it chose to construct an apparatus for stoking political outrage, particularly in forms that accentuate and intensify racial divisions. American political institutions offered a distinctive opportunity for a populist figure to draw on this fury to first capture the nomination of the GOP, and from that position to ascend to the White House. Yet the administration’s substantive agenda constituted a full-throated endorsement of the GOP economic elite’s long-standing demands for cuts in social spending, sharp tax reductions for the wealthy, and the gutting of consumer, worker and environmental protections. The chasm between Trump’s rhetoric and his actions justifies a more skeptical assessment of the breadth and depth of American populism, one that acknowledges how its contours were shaped by the nation’s unusual political institutions, its intensifying political polarization and the out-sized influence of the wealthy. While Trump lost the 2020 election, these structural conditions remain. So do the distressing incentives these conditions create for one of the nation's two major political parties.  
  
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## Intervenant(s)
Paul Pierson

## Intervenant(s) secondaires
Cyril Benoît, Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès

### Date de publication de l'épisode
16/02/2021

### Type(s) de ressource
`#Audio` 

### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Etat / nation / société` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Amérique du Nord` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

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`#Recherche` 

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`#SoundCloud` 

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