Populism, the Left, and Progressive Resistance

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“If you deny people a populism of the left, and they’re offered a populism of the right, then they may take it”.

What is the role of populism in shaping resistance to Trump and Trumpism? Who are the new progressive leaders emerging from the American grassroots, and what are their historical antecedents? D D Guttenplan, who covered the 2016 USA presidential election for The Nation, explores these questions in the latest episode of the History Workshop Podcast.

Produced by Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton is an editor of History Workshop Journal and Coordinating Editor of History Workshop. She is the author of In Search of the Blues and When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, and she has written and presented several features for BBC Radio. She is currently writing a cultural history of Valerie Solanas’s 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol.

D D Guttenplan

D D Guttenplan is a journalist and historian who has recently been appointed as editor of The Nation. His books include The Holocaust on Trial, an account of David Irving’s libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt, and American Radical, a prize-winning biography of the leftwing journalist IF Stone. In 2016, writing for The Nation, he covered the US presidential election, and that experience generated his most recent book, The Next Republic: the Rise of a New Radical Majority.

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