Editing Neoliberalism (section)

=== Right-wing populism and nationalism ===
{{See also|Right-wing populism|Nationalism}}
Research by [[Kristen Ghodsee]], ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], argues that widespread discontent with neoliberal capitalism has led to a "[[Communist nostalgia|red nostalgia]]" in much of the former Communist bloc. She argues that "the political freedoms that came with democracy were packaged with the worst type of unregulated, free-market capitalism, which completely destabilized the rhythms of everyday life and brought crime, corruption and chaos where there had once been comfortable predictability."<ref name="Wamc.org">{{cite web |date=November 1, 2011 |title=Dr. Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College – Nostalgia for Communism |url=http://wamc.org/post/dr-kristen-ghodsee-bowdoin-college-nostalgia-communism |access-date=July 26, 2018 |publisher=Wamc.org |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111205821/https://www.wamc.org/post/dr-kristen-ghodsee-bowdoin-college-nostalgia-communism |url-status=dead}}</ref> This ultimately fueled a resurgence of [[nationalism|nationalist]] politicians and parties, such as [[Vladimir Putin]] in [[Russia]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Plokhy |first=Serhii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2F_EAAAQBAJ |title=The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl |date=16 May 2023 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-1-80206-179-6 |quote=... If the collapse of the USSR was sudden and largely bloodless, growing strains between its two largest successors would develop into limited fighting in the Donbas in 2014 and then into all-out warfare in 2022, causing death, destruction, and a refugee crisis on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War.}}</ref> [[Viktor Orbán]] in [[Hungary]], [[Alexander Lukashenko]] in [[Belarus]], and the [[Law and Justice]] party in [[Poland]].<ref name="Ghodsee2017"/>

The aftermath of the [[Great Recession]] and decline of the [[Rust Belt]] have been cited as contributing to the rise of [[right-wing populism]] in the United States, including the victory of Donald Trump in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 U.S. presidential election]].<ref name="Revolt of the Rust Belt">{{cite journal|title=The revolt of the Rust Belt: place and politics in the age of anger|journal=The British Journal of Sociology|volume=68|issue=S1|pages=S120–S152|author=Michael McQuarrie|date=November 8, 2017|doi=10.1111/1468-4446.12328|pmid=29114874|s2cid=26010609 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Murphy |first=Chris |date=October 25, 2022 |title=The Wreckage of Neoliberalism |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/democrats-should-reject-neoliberalism/671850/ |access-date=February 22, 2023 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=February 21, 2023 |title=Inside the New Right's Next Frontier: The American West |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-right-civil-war |access-date=February 22, 2023 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en-US }}</ref>