Medios | In the informative program Sonar, Radio Sonar interviews lawyer Pedro Mujica.

Why does the radical populist right win? She comes to power through popular votes, but once she takes power, the setbacks begin.

Why do they succeed in winning? For the author, this phenomenon is the product of excessive individualism. The radical right comes to power through democratic means, but internally begins the erosion of the rule of law, practicing the accumulation of powers, ignorance of differences, cuts in fiscal spending, among other measures.

Iliberalism, It is explained with a clear example and it is how Trump has been concentrating power and the mechanisms he has used to stay in power. The same thing happens with Miley, who has been governing via decree.

There is a social fracture and an exaggerated process of individualism that has occurred because there are groups that have been denied and discriminated against; but it is also symptomatic of the contemporary subject, where the self is appealed to and a self-identity is constructed, a world of its own, one that is detached from the collective and we group ourselves along lines. A phenomenon that is on the rise in Europe and has taken root in Latin America.

Social media is also a very relevant factor because when studying the phenomenon, we become a kind of media combined with the speed at which false information spreads.

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