{"id":185,"date":"2020-06-17T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T08:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:03:02","slug":"has-coronavirus-exposed-the-weakness-of-populist-radical-right-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/2020\/06\/17\/has-coronavirus-exposed-the-weakness-of-populist-radical-right-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Coronavirus Exposed the Weakness of Populist Radical Right Parties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spain\u2019s El Confidencial speaks with PiAP&#8217;s Daniele Albertazzi as part of a lengthy examination of the populist radical right today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/mundo\/europa\/2020-06-16\/ultraderecha-coronavirus-europa_2640356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albertazzi explains<\/a>\u00a0that, amid Coronavirus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cultural and identity issues, which are the ones on which populist radical right parties focus, inevitably become far less relevant to voters when they are fearing for their own lives. Then issues of competence and credibility take center stage instead.<\/p>\n<p>Refugees, ships crossing the Mediterranean and the threat allegedly posed by Catalan separatists to Spanish national identity do not seem that urgent if you cannot even get out of your apartment or are scared that a trip to the supermarket will kill you.<\/p>\n<p>And populist radical right parties are not generally seen as particularly competent in handling existential crises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other specialists quoted in the article include Nonna Mayer, Cas Mudde, Pippa Norris, Guillermo Fern\u00e1ndez-V\u00e1zquez, and Giovanni Orsina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s El Confidencial speaks with PiAP&#8217;s Daniele Albertazzi as part of a lengthy examination of the populist radical right today. Albertazzi explains\u00a0that, amid Coronavirus: Cultural and identity issues, which are the ones on which populist radical right parties focus, inevitably become far less relevant to voters when they are fearing for their own lives. Then &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-comparing-populisms","8":"category-populism-in-action-analysis","9":"category-the-project-in-the-media","11":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",1024,716,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-300x210.jpg",300,210,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-768x537.jpg",768,537,true],"large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",905,633,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",1024,716,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",1024,716,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"atomic-blocks-featured-image":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",1024,716,false],"atomic-blocks-featured-image-wide":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini.jpg",1024,716,false],"atomic-blocks-logo":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-300x210.jpg",300,210,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Spain\u2019s El Confidencial speaks with PiAP&#8217;s Daniele Albertazzi as part of a lengthy examination of the populist radical right today. Albertazzi explains\u00a0that, amid Coronavirus: Cultural and identity issues, which are the ones on which populist radical right parties focus, inevitably become far less relevant to voters when they are fearing for their own lives. Then issues of competence and credibility take center stage instead. Refugees, ships crossing the Mediterranean and the threat allegedly posed by Catalan separatists to Spanish national identity do not seem that urgent if you cannot even get out of your apartment or are scared that a&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/category\/comparing-populisms\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Comparing Populisms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/category\/populism-in-action-analysis\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Populism in Action Analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/category\/the-project-in-the-media\/\" rel=\"category tag\">The Project in the Media<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Josh Allen","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/Salvini-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Josh Allen","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}