How the Uniqueness of the Radical Populist Right in Latin America Allows Us to Rethink the Global Populist Radical Right

This article studies the political processes and topics that marked the rise of the Latin American PRR (Populist Radical Right) in order to determine its singularity. From there an attempt is made to arrive at a more universal definition of the PRR than that of Cas Mudde, the most important academic in far-right studies. For Mudde the central triad of the PRR's ideology is nativism, authoritarianism, and populism. The Latin American PRR is indeed authoritarian and populist, but it is less oriented toward nativism than towards the struggle against "gender ideology". This is why the author proposes to alter Mudde's triad in the following manner: social conservatism, authoritarianism, and populism. On the other hand, while the European and American PRR discursively opposes neoliberalism, the Latin American PRR sticks to the defense of the "economic model". And this singularity reveals the hidden truth of the PRR in the West: namely, that far from constituting a way out of neoliberalism, the PRR sustains it by displacing popular discontent with the system toward the hatred of the immigrant, religious or sexual Other. This is why the author also proposes to include neoliberalism in the definition of the PRR so as to finally arrive at the tetrad: neoliberalism, social conservatism, populism and authoritarianism.