POPULISMO (3)

 (Continuação daqui)

3. De volta à Tradição

É assim que Patrick Deneen caracteriza o movimento do Populismo (ou Novo Conservadorismo) na América:

"It is pro worker, favouring policies that protect jobs and industries within nations, urging more controlled immigration policies, supporting private-sector unions, and calling upon the power of the state to secure social safety nets targeted at supporting middle-class security. It rejects the progressive commitment to 'identity politics' in which the human essence is reflected in racial or sexual identities. It is socially conservative, preferring traditional marriage, rejecting the idea that gender is elastic, opposed to the sexualization rampant in modern culture  and especially that aimed at young children.. It is increasingly supportive of public encouragement and maintenance of the family and in some countries, such as Hungary,  has effected legislation to encourage and support marriage, family formation, publicly funded child support, and increasing birth rates.

This [new] conservatism is generally patriotic and supportive of distinct national identities and cultures, rejecting the ethos of cosmopolitanism. It rejects globalization both as an economic and cultural project. In its valorization of stability, continuity, cultural inheritance, and national heritage, is a rejection of the broader modern commitment to a project of 'progress' that seeks to displace, dismantle and overcome all boundaries and limits to infinite choice and self-creation"  (...).

"(...) One of its features is that it defies easy political categorization along the left-right axis as defined by liberalism, and just as often can be seen as a 'left' critique of capitalism as much as a "right" defense of a traditional, stable society of families, faith, and communities (...)

"But its deeper origins lie in the classical and Christian tradition of the West - a common-good political order that aims to harmonize the various contentious elements of any human society. Its reappearance in modern times was given the label of 'conservative', but its deepest origins lie in both the preliberal, as well as preconservative, thought of figures such as Aristotle, Polybius and Aquinas".

(Patrick J. Deneen, Regime Change, New York: Sentinel, 2023, pp. 94-96, ênfases meus).