Return the Power to the People
Politicized Nostalgia in Danish Right-Wing Populism
Keywords:
Populism, heartland, discourse, New Right, Danish People's PartyAbstract
This paper analyzes a series of central texts from the Danish parties The New Right and the Danish People’s Party with emphasis on their use of the populist figure of the heartland: A narrative about the always already lost or threatened harmonic community that needs to be protected against enemies of the people. The paper concludes that the idea of the heartland is strongly present in the discourses of both parties, and that in The New Right’s discourse the heartland is equally threated by foreigners and the elite, while in the discourse of the Danish People’s Party it is mostly threatened by immigrants whereas the antagonism to the elite is downplayed.
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