nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/efff426923fc5f24 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 241011s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/efff426923fc5f24 doi eng 342 23 Wind, Marlene Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1559-9111 Drop Bothsideism - Calling Out Populism and Deliberate Lies for the Survival of Democracy Wind, Marlene Verfassungsblog 2024-10-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Western media are not equipped to handle right-wing populists like Donald Trump, Orbán, or the AfD. Moreover, constitutional theorists who argue that democracy should be purely procedural are joining the populist chorus. In our current age of populism we keep telling ourselves that everyone’s voice is always equally valid – also when based on lies and disinformation. It’s just another “point of view”. What populism has undermined is the right but also the courage to call out those who deliberately spread lies as well as those who in doing so openly use democratic institutions to destroy democracy. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bothsideism Democratic fundamentalism Populism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/drop-bothsideism/ raw object