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Cas Mudde
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Dutchman 🇳🇱 in the South 🇺🇸 | Politicoloog 👨‍🎓 | European politics 🇪🇺 | far-right parties ✋ | soccer & politics ⚽ | groundhopping ⚽️🏉🏒 | punkrock 🎸 | movies 🎥 | columnist ✍️ | straight edge XXX | he/him/his 🚹 | all opinions are mine and not of my employers 🗣️ .. more

Cas Mudde is a Dutch political scientist who focuses on political extremism and populism in Europe and the United States. His research includes the areas of political parties, extremism, democracy, civil society, and European politics. Mudde identifies himself as a political leftist. .. more

Political science 82%
Sociology 13%
Pinned
Back on popular (?) demand: my International Office Hours.

Open to everyone, academic and non-academic, even though it was started in particular to give junior scholars (incl grad students) an opportunity to discuss their work with me.

Please sign up… and show up! ✍️
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SIGN-UP SHEET FOR “INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HOURS” WITH CAS MUDDE IN FALL 2025, I WILL AGAIN HOLD “INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HOURS” FOR COLLEAGUES/STUDENTS/OTHERS WHO WANT TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THEIR RESEARC...
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Absolute insanity to see how mundane the NYT writes about Trump’s mental and physical decline compared to the way they haunted Biden.

This newspaper is beyond repair!
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com

Mafia state 💰

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⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.

The scholars had argued in the paper...

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This promo video for the new “stadium” of Birmingham City FC is a perfect example of “modern football”. You could write a whole PhD thesis on it! 🤮
FIRST LOOK | Birmingham City unveil their NEW 62,000-capacity stadium 🏟️
YouTube video by Birmingham City Football Club
www.youtube.com
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop

Done! Time for the gym. 💪

And yet.... this is not (even) Brazil.

Working on my new @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social column, working title: "Get Ready for the Worst World Cup Ever" 🙄

Except in the U.S.
Lesson: Never plot a coup.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court

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Lesson: Never plot a coup.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court

Wonderful! Ultra Activism! 😍😍😍
Demo der Karlsruher Fanszene vor Heimspiel gegen Elversberg – 4.000 KSC’ler setzen nächstes Zeichen gegen Pläne der IMK. Mehr dazu hier im Artikel ➡️ www.faszination-fankurve.de 📸: Supporters Karlsruhe #ksc #imk #fans #demo #ultras #karlsruhersc #supporterskarlsruhe

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Demo der Karlsruher Fanszene vor Heimspiel gegen Elversberg – 4.000 KSC’ler setzen nächstes Zeichen gegen Pläne der IMK. Mehr dazu hier im Artikel ➡️ www.faszination-fankurve.de 📸: Supporters Karlsruhe #ksc #imk #fans #demo #ultras #karlsruhersc #supporterskarlsruhe

On Substack…. 🙄

Good background piece on the rise of Peter Magyar, the man who lives rent-free in Viktor Orbán’s head.

Great piece. In what way does it play a role that he combines both the anti-Orbán role for the broader opposition and the “Orbán-without-corruption” role for disappointed Fidesz-voters?

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Saw them in an away match two years ago… still brought significant away support. 💔

Boavista FC is dead. 💔

After 125 years, the historic Porto club is yet another victim of “modern football” and multiclub ownership.

Panteras Negras FC is a new club created by one of their ultra groups. An example of the “punk football” that exists in the margins of “modern football.”

Sorry, I meant the English “hard right” 🤡

Given how the BBC has self-censored under pressure from the English far right, this is sadly not surprising at all.

At the same time, open racists continue to be invited as “experts” and given free reign.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

It’s nice to also see some good news sometimes. Important ruling

European Court of Justice rules that same-sex marriages should be recognized across the EU. 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com

That seems an unlikely big drop… anything specific about the poll(ster)?
Yes! A broad majority of the Parliament agrees: the EU must take more action against Orbán!

My report on the rule of law in Hungary was adopted with a majority of 415 votes, urging to take away Orbán's voting rights and to freeze EU funds.

We must stop his breakdown of democracy and human rights.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Clear! Thanks for clarifying! 👍
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"