@ARTICLE{10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235, AUTHOR={Hirschmann, Nancy J.}, TITLE={Populism and Protest}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Sociology}, VOLUME={5}, YEAR={2021}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235}, DOI={10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235}, ISSN={2297-7775}, ABSTRACT={The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism. I argue that peaceful, popular protest is an important tool to resist white patriarchal populist authoritarianism.} }