Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

Perhaps the most consequential features that all versions of populism share is the weakening of liberal democratic institutions.

…a low and dangerous demagogue.

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.

In essence, populism is an illiberal democratic response to decades to decades of undemocratic liberal policies.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.

I'm so proud of being a populist!

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others - you've got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.

I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

When party crackups happen, they usually involve nativism.

… becoming a very dangerous proposition…. an out and out demagogue

Unfortunately in this country we now have a demagogue ... one that is reckless with the truth.

Fascism in America will attempt to advance under the banner of Americanism and anti-Fascism.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.

An extreme reflection of the dangers confronting modern social development is the growth of racism, nationalism, and militarism and, in particular, the rise of demagogic, hypocritical, and monstrously cruel dictatorial police regimes…. These tragic developments have always derived from the struggle of egotistical and group interests, the struggle for unlimited power, suppression of intellectual freedom, a spread of intellectually simplified, narrow-minded mass myths.

Of course there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

Donald Trump is a fascist.

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.