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Jul 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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As citizens across the world face multiple crises, generally caused by the greed & misplaced ideology of a handful of grotesquely wealthy Libertarian & Hard/Far-Right elites, please consider the wise words of leading Linguist & expert on populism, Ruth Wodak:
I suggest every citizen concerned by the 'shameless normalisation' of lying & the use of far-right rhetoric, engage with the work of Linguist, Ruth Wodak, who understands better than anyone the way language is mobilised by hard/far-right populists.

populismstudies.org/prof-ruth-woda…
Wodak was asked "When and how do populist parties become unsuccessful? Is there a way to defeat them at the ballot box?"
Boris Johnson's, along with several other UK Government Ministers', shamelessness around lying is part of a very deliberate, very effective & very successful rhetorical strategy mobilised by far-right politicians the world over.

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