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The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam cautioned supporters of populist movements across the globe that their movements are often too dependent on globalism as a mirror, creating a political symbiosis. Appearing on Stephen K. Bannon’s War Room, Kassam warned populists against complacency, especially as the 2024 environment feels increasingly like 2015/16.

TOO DEPENDENT ON GLOBALISM.

“Globalism is being routed. It is being routed intellectually. It is being routed morally. It is being routed by the public will,” Kassam said, adding, “but populism itself is kind of in this what I think is a symbiotic relationship right now with globalism. It is a push and pull. And they both kind of leverage each other.”

“The reason I think you have what is a dependent ascendency – if it is an ascendency at all – rather than an independent ascendency is because it really doesn’t have its legs. Populism, still, has been carried kind of on the back of a few figures the last decade,” he added.

VULNERABILITY WITHOUT ACTION.

The lack of formal political apparatuses, according to Kassam, has left many populist movements around the globe vulnerable to political persecution and law-fare actions by globalists. He pointed to the new globalist Tusk government in Poland ordering the arrest of populist officials in Andrzej Duda’s previous right-wing administration, as well as Jack Smith’s law-fare prosecutions of Donald Trump in the United States, as examples of globalists striking back.

In addition to threats posed by globalists, the lack of political infrastructure has also exposed populist movements from within. Kassam, responding to Bannon’s examples of grassroots protests against globalism as a sign of the movement’s strength, said: “You point to protests and truckers and all of that, and I’ll just point to Giorgia Meloni and Mike Johnson.” Both were initially hailed as allies of right-wing populism but have since proven to be weak leaders who have caved to globalist political pressure.

“These people cannot be in charge of populist parties with populist bases,” Kassam said.

MORE THAN A PROTEST MOVEMENT.

Kassam also warned that many populist political movements become too complacent with being just a “party of perennial protest” –  stuck in permanent political opposition. “Here’s the crossroads that MAGA is at right now – America First, the global populist-nationalist movement writ-large… are you going to be parties of protest for the rest of your lives? Or are you going to be parties of government?” Kassam said, challenging populist political activists before adding: “Because if you’re going to be parties of government you can’t have Meloni in charge, you can’t have Jonson in charge. You can’t have Ronna McDaniel in charge. You actually have to take those reins of power and use them.”

“They’re giving you a choice. You can shut up and go along with it [globalism] or you can do something about it,” Kassam concluded.

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