#Populist

There is an interesting argument that populist right-wing governments, led by likes of Trump and Johnson, are no longer seriously interested in public policy that improves the well-being of society.
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We will not bow to this "hero-caste" of cops and you can't make us. Any citizen can be (or made out to be) a criminal so don't try to put
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If you can't see Trump's dictators playbook then I feel sorry for you... There is very little difference between Trump and Putin, Erdoğan and Orbán. Thankfully the US constitution keeps
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Lots of thoughts about this. Here's two: 1) This really puts the minimum wage fiasco of a couple months ago in sharp perspective; 2) Bernie & others should rally in
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I must stop wasting my time trying to help young people on Twitter who don't actually want to be helped at all & treat political activism as if it's a
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Thread Please Share: Dear President @realDonaldTrump Amy Coney Barrett will be the Jeff session of the Supreme Court. She said she will recuse herself from any decision that the pope
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This thread is being passed around again and dismissed as "liberal bullshit" by certain mansplaining leftists (ahem Jeet Heer) so I thought I would provide a few more historiographical examples
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I have made the decision to leave the Republican Party. Since I have been involved in politics (started in 2016) I have always considered myself a republican. The republicans were
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Next Quarantine Read: A biography of William Jennings Bryan. A thrice-failed populist presidential democratic nominee for president who left an indelible mark on American politics.It's a shame there's no modern-day
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was WOKE!!! I want to take you on a journey that will surprise you in terms of how the past and the present have been
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The point of observing that people like Josh Hawley are doing faux economic populism is not that they are *sincere*; it's that, because most of the Democratic Party so nakedly
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1/The coup is almost complete, but there is a small window of hope. Starmer is a good and capable man - everybody Greens/LibDems/Soft Left/SNP/Independents need to combine to disrupt the
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Yet again: the blatant contradiction of pretending to champion free speech, while demanding that anyone who disagrees with you must remain "impartial" ie shut up with our reasoned, evidenced criticism.
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[thread]The 860 page Corbynite report aspires to be the founding myth of the left as it re-groups.It is a classic 'stab in the back myth'. It claims that the reason
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Wish people would stop saying “antifa are the real fascists!” They aren’t, they are Communists. People mistake tactics (authoritarian, militant) that any particular worldview (fascism, Communism, lib democracy, etc) can
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Biden spokeswoman @KBeds tells reporters: "I want to be very, very clear about something: If you make under $400,000 — if you are an individual who makes under $400,000, you
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