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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Concepts, Character, and the Specter of New Cold Wars -- Chapter 2: Isaiah Berlin and Reinhold Niebuhr: Cold War Liberalism as an Intellectual Ethos -- Berlin, Niebuhr, and the Political Vision of Cold War Liberalism -- Berlin, Niebuhr, and Cold War Liberalism as Ethical Project -- Post-Script: The Past Alive in the Present? -- Chapter 3: The Contours of Cold War Liberalism (Berlin's in Particular) -- Philosophical Commitments -- A Primacy of Practice? A Primacy of Psychology? On Cold War Liberal Political Principles -- Cold War Liberal Strategies -- Chapter 4: Liberal Pluralism and Common Decency -- Berlin's Liberal Pluralism -- The Concept of Normality -- The Common Moral Minimum -- Constrained Value Pluralism -- Decent Societies -- Indecent Societies -- A Precarious Equilibrium -- Index.

This work argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism. Populists will always claim that they and they alone represent the people and their true interests. Müller also shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, populists can govern on the basis of their claim to exclusive moral representation of the people: if populists have enough power, they will end up creating an authoritarian state that excludes all those not considered part of the proper "people." The book proposes a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists and, in particular, how to counter their claims to speak exclusively for "the silent majority" or "the real people." - Provided by the publisher