The radicalisation of elites - Matthew Goodwin

Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, talks about how populism is not a protest movement but a distinct ideology which prioritises the interests of the national group against the ruling elite.
This is a new, radical, elite that has come through the university system and is defined by it's social liberalism or, in modern parlance, 'wokeness'.
From our event Is Europe's Future Populist?
brussels.mcc.hu/event/is-euro...
0:00 Why populism
2:40 4 reasons of populist voters
8:22 The rise of the new elite
13:20 3 steps of radicalisation
21:10 The way forward

[@wendycurrie9629]

Britain has changed beyond all recognition since I was a child in London. I lived in a postwar socially cohesive community, English was the common language, very low crime rate. Now, the area is a mass migration hellhole. The large Asian community face crime from Roma gangs. Crime is everywhere. No police. The graduate class look down on white British people. But, when Britain becomes an Islamic state, the graduate class will wonder how it all went wrong. Their own children will have no future. The concept of democracy will no longer exist when Britain becomes an Islamic state. Think about it folks! Be careful what you wish for!

[@simonstones1918]

And you still live in london?

[@helenrichardson1740]

Scaremongering and not true there are almost 10 million people live in London and just over a million are Muslim. Why is this distorted to such a degree it’s really crap. Only 14% are Muslim over 40% Christian over 27% not religious and the rest Hindu Jewish and Buddhists. Yet the talk of Muslims taking over is untrue.

[@Joemccxc]

That is the result of winning said war. This is literally what we fought for, though the common soldier had the wool pulled over his eyes.

[@MaggieNevin-tv3ib]

💯👍

[@polarbear7791]

I certainly agree. The wealthy and very much removed Shire landowners will be desperate to secure private armies in the future to protect their present privilege just as in the distant past.

[@alcanford4495]

Excellent speech. We need more people like Matt Goodwin who are prepared to put their head above the parapet, and tell the truth about what's going on.

[@rockyluvinfrnd8180]

Britain must immediately 1. Abolish dual citizenship beyond 5 eyes 2. Establish a basic guideline for BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 3. Identify all those people who have arrived in Britain after mid 1950s 4. Declare wokism as criminal offence 5. Must incentivise INDEGENOUS British population growth 6. Review fully relationships with WEF, OIC and China 7. Give strong powers to police to ensure people living in Britain gets the faith trust on police back on track. 😠

[@simonstones1918]

We do indeed. They’ll be viewed as hero’s in our future history. I just hope we can hold these elites to task when the fall comes…

[@daisyhobbs7500]

No, it is we, the ppl who need to grow a pair and construct a resistance movement of clever ppl who love their history, their culture and their fellow countrymen. Is there anybody out there with the strength and the qualities?

[@throughhumaneyes7648]

Tbh if u want that kind of info I'd start with the Tragedy and Hope (Quigley) lecture series by Jay Dyer. Only a few ppl I've found actually hone in on the important birds-eye view with no establishment bias, it's grating and draining.

[@Eatmeat7459]

i think inbreeding is the problem?

[@sudenims5235]

I’m low status and I’ve had enough of those elites and their stupidity.

[@lasttango7522]

So have I. These people are sick and will keep ramping up. This is not going to end well. Its our kids next. But they will reap what they sew.

[@juliarichter6987]

I've had enough of the stupidity of all kinds of people.

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

Have a read of that Them vs U.S. study by the Committee for Unleashing Prosperity. I think that’s what it’s called. Search with those terms and it should appear. It’s a pdf you can download if required.

[@lm_b5080]

its interesting - his conclusion is that ultimately what is needed is MORE DIVERSITY...and by that i mean more people who come from different status groups and aren't posh (regardless of colour) at the seat of power

[@OldeJanner]

I feel incredibly sorry for younger people who never knew how peaceful, happy and contented people used to be, had bugger all, but weren't expecting anything, certainly not waking up to find the country's government had turned against the nation!

[@AB-rx6no]

So do I

[@ponypetedm]

Probably the best diagnosis of what is currently happening in western society I have heard to date.

[@stevemcmahon100]

It is very good.

[@scottohara9001]

The “elite” hate the average person

[@alexmay1754]

Professor Matt Goodwin superb analysis as always

[@rockyluvinfrnd8180]

Britain must immediately 1. Abolish dual citizenship beyond 5 eyes 2. Establish a basic guideline for BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 3. Identity all those people who have arrived in Britain after mid 1950s 4. Declare wokism as criminal offence 5. Must incentivise INDEGENOUS British population growth 6. Review fully relationships with WEF, OIC and China 7. Give strong powers to police to ensure people living in Britain gets the faith trust on police back on track.

[@Joemccxc]

@@rockyluvinfrnd8180 Britain must immediately deport everybody that does not have exclusively European ancestry.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Hyper Immigration of vast numbers of people who hate the UK and other imported groups is not an experiment. It is not done in isolation or (by definition) in small numbers. There is no reset button. The only way to get back to the state we were in prior to Hyper Immigration is quite possibly too unpalatable for the majority to countenance.

[@alexmay1754]

No it's not. A policy of remigration can be done humanely and in stages.

[@seb9093]

@@alexmay1754 Like the utterly useless Rwanda scheme?

[@user-bs9ku3pe4u]

Matthew you have risen to the academic heights, now put your well founded and supported views to the real test. Get out there in the public domain, enter politics and sideline Labour & the Tories.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

It will be the only solution so people better get used to the idea and get prepared

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

@@seb9093 No, the other Rwandan scheme. From 1994.

[@cnrspiller3549]

He is a valuable voice in these self-destructive days.

[@izzyplant8428]

Refreshing truth. Thank you.

[@kkr7398]

The UK needs you

[@MZig-rw7su]

What an eloquent man who must surely be destined for great things once the people mobilise. I would say that because the current politicians so blatantly ignored the democratic wishes of the people on Migration and Brexit, there Must be court of law proceedings and imprisonment. To deliberately Lie on manifesto promises and commit voter fraud is a terrible crime against the people.

[@darrylmorris5348]

Its strange to think that the political establishment of your home country hate you, and infuriating that they use your taxes to express their hatred of you.

[@ahuman6825]

When a wise man speaks, we should listen. We should listen to this man.

[@vickyingramnymann8543]

Thank you Mathew. Excellent. I especially liked your definition of woke.

[@simonestreeter1518]

I have to make what I think is a very critical distinction in Mr. Goodwin's description of populism. He says that it is accompanied by the feeling that 'me and my group are being left behind, relative to other groups in society'. This is not it. The feeling is, and I am working in a working class job, serving mostly working class customers, in a working class town in the U.S.--the feeling is that we are being deliberately insulted, and even attacked, relative to other groups in society. This is key to understand. The current erasure of our history, our images, our values, our culture--our small town library's children's section is all Spanish speaking, though they comprise less than 10% of our population, for example--this is an attack, and we know it. It isn't a question of being 'left behind' at all, and frankly I find it insulting to describe it so.

[@simonestreeter1518]

And he never speaks to why. Why are the white majority under attack? Why are the elites so radicalized. Who did it?

[@Sanityplease501]

Great speech, which articulates what a lot of us are seeing. What's infuriating is we seem to be drifting back to a Labour govt which is the wrong direction. If the answer to too much Leftism, is 'we need more leftism', illogical by definition, then I fear for our nation's future and it seems the brainwashing of the masses is working. I hope Mr Goodwin and others can form some sort of power base or party, something the grown-ups can vote for, which gets the UK back on course.

[@sdrc92126]

One person's mass psychosis is another person's normalcy

[@rosswatson9144]

I I saw it last week when the major music award in Canada was won by a Punjabi singer, who is not even a citizen who sang in Punjabi surrounded by Punjabi dancers… This did not surprise me in the least, and I was rather shocked on KZbin by the naivety ‘s of commentators, who thought the JUNOs should’ve been more Canadian with less drag queen and transexual emphasis… I think they don’t realize that Canada is no longer a nation in the traditional sense as to Trudeau’s has said on numerous occasions we are a post nation nation… Which means to me the culture and traditions of the founding peoples is no longer appreciated, indeed, they are taken as evidence of oppression, and are supposed to be regarded with guilt and shame.

[@Adrian-jk4kx]

The Elite Woke Lunartics have taken over the asylum..

[@joycawthorne8215]

Thank you for a wonderful factual speech .. more people need to understand what’s going on

[@tommytippy4448]

I have an identity ,I am English ,proud to be English ,can take my line back 400 years and beyond,no lefty or elite or Politician will EVER take that from me.

[@robinleslie3882]

Nor me. They detached themselves and are now waging war against us. Why did we ever let them get away with it!

[@chamberpot969]

No CRT for British kids.

[@ValTwineDeaner]

I'd love to see a chat between Matthew and Douglas Murray - what a sane, intellectual and common sense discussion it would be. Thank you Matthew for explaining everything that is wrong in the world today. Those young people will eventually learn the hard way. When/if Islam takes over, we can all say, "I told you so". But we will be long gone anyway, and they can suck it up, and get on with it.

[@Slarti]

I really like Matthew Goodwin's clear and non-patronising manner of speaking - his is the voice that hopefully can convince more in positions of power.

[@julianchase95]

Convince them of what?? They know exactly what they are doing. It’s not as if they need just a bit more information or just a slightly better angle on the data for some lightbulb moment to happen: they are doing this on purpose, partly to punish people for voting for Brexit, but mainly to destroy native cultures here and everywhere else.

[@user-ol9gz1wp1b]

Wow This is brilliant! It's what I've been blogging about from my own perspective for YEARS. I'l deffo buy the book!

[@colemanfairweather1804]

Although framed through the British experience, the argument is just as strong for Australia, probably a few years behind the UK, but for the most part shows no sign of NOT going down the same rabbit hole - 700,000 immigrants in 12 months since Labor got into office.

[@county8815]

Matt Goodwin is one the best commentators on immigration and political issues

[@bengray4149]

M Goodwin is a brave and brilliantly assured speaker, statistician and general good egg. A few more like him and we might be able to slay this waking nightmare AKA WOKE yet.

[@steve-lm8mq]

Excellent. Really articulate and rewound several parts so I can have half a chance of repeating the message. Well done Mathew!

[@stephenmarks5239]

A fine exposition of the problem. Well done.

[@gevans7071]

Keep it up Matt. You're educating the World.

[@insidiousmaximus]

Thomas Sowell - The Vision of the Annointed. What Matthew is describing is the plan of the Frankfurt School.

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Everything you feel in your bones lucidly summarised in 23 minutes. God bless him.

[@harti938]

Exactly. You see and You hear. And You understand. Thank You.

[@mrsmvcheek]

What I cannot understand is why the university educated graduates,and I include my very good friends,have so little imagination about people not like them.They will not even talk.Well said at last.

[@BruceWood-lv2uq]

Brainwashed at uni while supposed to be learning a trade!!

[@deslarcombe3448]

Very impressive! But who is going to take action?

[@lasttango7522]

We are or else we are gone. There is no other solution. Its backbone time or kiss goodbye to all we love . These maniacs are never going to stop.

[@ArjunGhag-ix7te]

Brilliant by Goodwin

[@kokomo74149]

Well said.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

6:23 Vox is a party in Spain. In Portugal it's Chega.

[@stevealba4599]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 01:51 *🌐 National populism is a distinctive ideology prioritizing national interests against perceived corrupt elites, not just a protest movement.* 02:33 *💬 Support for national populism is driven by factors including distrust in institutions, feelings of relative deprivation, concerns about immigration's impact on national identity, and political dealignment.* 07:25 *🔄 Established elites' failure to address grievances fuels the rise of national populism, as they prioritize cultural values over addressing societal concerns.* 08:08 *🏛️ The elite class is undergoing radicalization, with a new socially liberal elite vying for power against an older economic elite, dominating institutions and narrowing acceptable discourse.* 16:12 *💼 Elite values, voices, and virtues dominate institutions, suppressing dissenting views and imposing cultural norms on society, shaping national identity and public discourse.* 21:17 *📢 Reforms are needed to amplify the voices and values of the majority, establish alternative media channels, and foster bravery among academics to challenge prevailing narratives.* Made with HARPA AI

[@Jane-rc2rk]

This man speaks sense. My country is nothing like the country I grew up in … and yes, there were problems, but nothing like this. I cannot talk to my daughter, well-educated in Durham and Oxford in medieval history, from a working class background ( I went to uni, as did her dad … we have enough money, but I’m thoroughly working class) espouses everything this man says … I miss my country, my culture, my history.

[@rockyluvinfrnd8180]

Britain must immediately 1. Abolish dual citizenship beyond 5 eyes 2. Establish a basic guideline for BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 3. Identify all those people who have arrived in Britain after mid 1950s 4. Declare wokism as criminal offence 5. Must incentivise INDEGENOUS British population growth 6. Review fully relationships with WEF, OIC and China 7. Give strong powers to police to ensure people living in Britain gets the faith trust on police back on track. 😠

[@johnkeane1419]

If the British underclass had been prepared to take the available jobs, none of this would have happened.

[@andylewis7360]

@@johnkeane1419So, a man who’s done factory work in Manchester for his entire life and who’s wife works at ALDI should move his family to deepest Suffolk to work on a farm, picking fruit?

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

😂😂😂😂lol the invaders aren’t working at jobs. Too smooth brained to listen to the presentation?😂

[@stevenpaterson5100]

​@@johnkeane1419 wrong again mate

[@stevenpaterson5100]

Agreed

[@Vanessa-lf2jn]

Thank you, this was fantastic to listen to and I wish it went longer. You have been able to articulate what so many of us that agree with you, seem unable to do. It was pragmatic and clear without sensationalism or emotive language that could cause your message to be misinterpreted or misunderstood. Well done. Please continue your work and speaking out on what is the conversation of a generation.

[@sarahblunt1098]

Please stand for office, you'd have my vote in the wink of an eye.

[@ClifftopTragedy]

I wish this was louder. I have it on max volume in earbuds and can't hear over the sounds around while out walking. I love the idea of radicalised elites.

[@user-we2qv1cx6x]

Thank you Mr Goodwin.

[@bernardjoyce1288]

Nice to hear someone who understands what is happening. Hope he can DO something to reverse this trend

[@daisyhobbs7500]

So, where do we go from here? Where is the vulnerable under belly of these elites? If we stand a chance of pushing back and saving our nation, where do we start Matthew?

[@sdrc92126]

exodus 12:12

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

"Where is the vulnerable under belly of these elites?" Fear. Fear for their assets and fear for their lives. Power concedes nothing without a demand and a willingness to use force to get it.

[@Vintagevanessa99]

Brilliant and confident voice for the people

[@peterbee88]

Volume level too low. Not too bad to start with (but still too low) then drops off after first 4.5 minutes. You need to sack whoever is doing the sound, and get some professionals in.

[@stevemcmahon100]

Lol

[@englishincontext4025]

Yes, they had one job to do ..

[@richardmortimer8147]

It's madness and blindness. I feel so sorry for these idiots, who don't know what they are doing! (Destroying their own country, identity and wealth, that put them in a position to speak and influence others in the first place).

[@lasttango7522]

They know exactly what they are doing but don't care. These people will get out of Britian and live a cosy life thereafter. As Matt said these people are called the 'Anywheres' no alligence to this country. This is a social experiment that will cost us all. Basically we are lab rats. Not nice but we need to wake the f up now.

[@susanleatherbarrow2495]

A fish rots from the head down. Same with a nation. They will suffer the most, got more to lose than us. Wait til Muslims want to get rid of Charlie and Weak Willy and demand a majority Muslim government.

[@fhugheveleigh2]

A situation we are all experiencing is here decidedly well explained.

[@richardmortimer8147]

He's right! Here's the problem: It is not about being right (although that is the starting point). Gerard Batten was way ahead of his time (10 years, many have reckoned), but people would not vote for him (in enough numbers). Cromwell was way ahead of his time, but he had power when he made his reforms (and still struggled with parliament to implement them). That is the key: Gaining influence with enough people to drive change. That's why Nigel Farage is so important. He has the following and the influence.

[@traypaquette7887]

I proudly refer to myself as a populist

[@jamesmccann355]

One only has to look at the case of the Cambridge five. Radicalised during their time at Cambridge University.

[@wonkothesane2288]

Yes exactly. Please share this with everyone….. Spot on.

[@simonmatthews6652]

Matt would make a great politician

[@pincermovement72]

Great speech and I must say I always enjoy listening to Matthew who is a great orator and very calm in his delivery but covers all bases for polite discourse. However the latest Morgoths Review on KZbin podcast speaks on this very subject and his version does not hold back and for me is a much better message for normal people in normal jobs with normal education. I urge you all to watch it .

[@suehoskins8559]

Thanks Matt.

[@Stafford674]

Excellent speech but only 30 seconds for what do we do? One step is to introduce the Swiss system of direct democracy. ie referendums.

[@RichardEnglander]

Technology is making Direct Democracy more appealing. Anybody considering supporting that would do well to read Ghadaffi. He wrote a very complicated system for DD, complicated in that it seeks to be comprehensive.

[@Stafford674]

@@RichardEnglander Are we talking about Muammar Ghadaffi or someone else. If so, could you give me the title of the book.

[@RichardEnglander]

@@Stafford674 yes, that one. It's in his Green Book and can be found elsewhere too.

[@JesusLovesYou9999]

I hold two degrees but I have never lost sight of the graduate class's predilection for arrogance , myopia , naked self-interest and an ability to believe in absolutely insane ideas . It is absolutely mind boggling . It's as if they have been completely overhelmed a desire to be a member of a self-deluded superior social class at any cost . The cost of truth , the cost of the obvious , the cost the ruin of community , the cost of a stable sense of social cohesion , the cost of the future . I am frequently stunned by the absolute senseless rubbish which pores out of the mouths of many of my long standing liberal friends . In spite of the overt failures of liberalism over the past 50 years and the fact that liberalism has morphed into Post-Liberal Authoritarianism , they cling to it like a drowning child clinging to a lead weight of a life preserver in a raging river . They haven't the courage to admit that they have been committed to a failed belief system and that this belief system has become a totalitarian monster . So much for the power and value of education when it makes mindless conscripts of people who started out seeking truths . Perhaps , it's a case of having a little knowledge but too little knowledge or maybe it's just chronic status anxiety , the primacy of identity and fear of getting ostracised by the tribe . Whatever it is , it certainly the death of the mind and the death of truth .

[@melissadeloach8503]

That was beautifully said and so well explained. I noticed your user name. Faith helps keep us grounded, whether rich or poor 💔 🙏 ✝️

[@JesusLovesYou9999]

@@melissadeloach8503 Thanks . Take care .

[@muldoun45]

Great speech!

[@craigjack1125]

Superb 👌

[@WeAreAllData65]

Though one would agree with all that MG says here, our western nations haven't just evolved into the societal chaos we see today, it's not by some random chance. This breed of self-appointed 'elite' with their mindset of luxury beliefs have always existed and for decades, this New World Order in favour of a One World Government (headed exclusively by this 'elite', with facilitators) has been 'in the planning' for just as long. It is only in (relatively) recent years that their (combined) amassed wealth, power and influence has made possible this 'seize the day' implementation of their agenda - to the detriment of the quality of life of the rest of us.. Not convinced we can vote our way out of this.

[@susanleatherbarrow2495]

It's unworkable.

[@E_incognito]

Bravo

[@user-mq9il9jc9f]

Thank you for this report.

[@AB-rx6no]

Love from France ❤

[@mcRonald83]

I wish volume was higher...would love to listen to this speech...

[@Zalley]

If only we could stipulate that all government ministers will have to live in a poor inner city suburb during their time in office.

[@Sameoldfitup]

It's up to The English people to revolt

[@user-zz9gn2dc3l]

My comment immediately deleted

[@rosswatson9144]

Nothing compared to what’s happening in Canada.

[@susanleatherbarrow2495]

Stop voting in Trudy!!

[@ph8077]

Yet....

[@lmg7503]

Well said

[@beaanderson6488]

I think delusional is the right word not radical.

[@Stoddardian]

Radical comes from the Latin Radix, which means root. Being radical means going to the root of the problem. Leftists certainly don't do that.

[@helgividar]

Brilliant!

[@sdrc92126]

When did populism become a bad thing?

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

When it proved incompatible with neoliberalism.

[@peterellison450]

Happily the elite at whatever level can't grasp that most of them will be cast aside once the mega elite have used them. Also it's those and their ancestors not the man or women in the street who were responsible for many of the alleged sins of the past.

[@megetmorsomt]

It's called narcissistic abuse...

[@lasttango7522]

Yup and we need to wake the hell up. ASAP.

[@jansliwa4881]

100% correct. Or even 120% 🤓

[@kodiak64]

I had to give up, the volume is just so low.

[@Rondo2ooo]

The knowledge and profile of political leaders sank dramatically over the last decades. It's about opportunistic people now, how are not good enough on the free market. As it's their only way, they also feel no responsibility for the country. The elites know that and take their chance to manipulate them with heavy lobbying. It's nothing new, but thresholds are much lower now.

[@tonyscriven7771]

More ‘direct’ democracy eg Swiss style referendums.

[@dks13827]

Cannot hear this well.

[@debbiewright8452]

But if you were 'an elite' and didn't agree with those views, would you feel pressure to keep quiet?

[@user-zz9gn2dc3l]

How about - do you want humanity to survive? Because that is what is at stake here. Grow courage and grow integrity.

[@user-gj5se7er3r]

Elite education?.well God help us😮😂

[@davidalderson4980]

Some important truths wilfully and flagrantly distorted to serve reactionary ends. Oh, and careerist ones.

[@niknikmoore]

sound level issues

[@ads13924]

Well said. The reality we live in. I always say what I think, and I think that populations will vote for right leaning government's and move away from the left. I think education needs to change. We need to learn about all colonialism, all empires, all slavery etc etc. There is no shame to be had in England that is no shared by all.

[@orsoncart802]

!TUO SGOW (Just a Reflection)

[@honkytonk4465]

???

[@Jbk0860]

I wish that person in the audience would’ve excused themself to the bathroom rather than proceeding to cough incessantly throughout the entire speech. Good god.

[@Comp1222]

We’re doomed!

[@klasnm_5364]

👍

[@jamesclark6487]

The 60s? More like the late 1910s and the Russian Revolution.

[@nicholasshackles5033]

So much for our so called Democracy it's a joke

[@FenTour]

Such clarity in this talk. Excellent.

[@vernonhiggins3323]

9:09 He should say educational 'attainment', not 'achievement '

[@andywarner6271]

Stop calling them elites!!

[@stumccabe]

SOUND LEVEL TOO LOW - too hard to listen to.

[@ph8077]

Probably doctored by woke Alphabet zealots! I'm joking - I'm not a pathological conspiracy theorist.

[@oliveoyle2594]

Mathew thank you for your views which during certain stages your education and vocabulary loses me. To further your opinions somehow you need to address the people who didn’t have the good fortune of achieving academic knowledge, jargon etc as I’m convinced they are the majority . Thank you

[@mackenshaw8169]

great but he doesn't explain why this is happening.

[@Stoddardian]

Because he's controlled opposition. He will never say which tribe is doing all of this.

[@rigavitch]

BRAVO!!!