ANT 354 - Lecture #3

US and Canada

Basket of Deplorables

Hilary Clinton, 2016 presidential campaign: “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, you name it

White Man Without a College Education

US phrase for a likely supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement.

Freedom Convoy

Truckers blocked roads, converged on Ottawa, January to February 2022 to protest vaccine “mandates”. Included small business owners and family-farm owners, but the majority of members were truckers. Surprisingly, included a good deal of women, immigrants and visible minorities than you’d expect.

Petit Bourgeoise

Referred to by Hunt as an “indebted” group present at the Freedom Convoy. People who are very proud of their moral standards, look down on people who don’t have good manners, and are absolutely convinced of their sense of culture and taste.

Oil and Gas Nationalists

Another group of people present at the Freedom Convoy. Resistant to Trudeau’s ‘carbon tax’.

Hunt vs. Kalmar on the “New Class” of Right-Wing Nationalists

• Hunt claims that immigrants and minorities are a ____ _____ being attracted to right-wing movements like the Freedom Convoy

• Prof. Kalmar disagrees — working class, service industry, blue-collar workers, the petit bourgeoise are all groups that have supported right-wing movements in disproportionate numbers since fascist movements of WWI and WWII

Conservative Party Supporters

• More men than women

• More younger people (ie. 18-29 year olds)

• More rural supporters and urban suburban supporters than urban support

• Education (biggest criteria) — less educated people support the right-wing at a higher rates than college or university graduates

• Racial and ethnic majorities

Typology of Capital

• Economic

• Cultural

• Social

• Symbolic

Economic Capital

Money!

Cultural Capital

What you know, education.

Social Capital

Who you know, social networks.

Symbolic Capital

Prestige and status — has to be recognized to have value. Holding other forms of capital brings you closer to this form. Closer to social and cultural than economic.

Marine Le Pen

• Daughter of far-right politician Jean le Pen (justified French Nazi collaboration, known anti-semite)

• Tries to suppress anti-semitism in her party, professes admiratoin for Israel

• Current official leader of her party, the Rassemblement National is Jordan Bardella

• Engages in open Islamophobia

Alice Weidel

• Leader of Alternative fur Deutschland/Alternative for Germany

• Weidel is co-chair and parliamentary leader

• Lesbian!! With a Sri-Lankan wife!!!!

Jose Antonio Kast

• President of Chile as of 2026

• “Populist” right-wing leader

• Most conservative leader of Chile since the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

Pierre Polievre

• Conservative Party of Canada leader

• A social “outsider”, not part of the traditional Conservative elite

• Mainstreaming illiberalism in Canadian politics

Tamara Lich

• Born in Saskatchewan

• Trucker leader

• Organized crowdfunding

• Alberta secessionist

• Anti-vax

• Claims some Metis heritage