#POPULISM

Trump is done. GOP knows it. Trump knows it, too. Yes, Trump will increase GOP votes enough to get them close senate seats and gerrymandered House seats. But just enough
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Remember when Americans shook the earth with massive protests demanding an end to the police state and the entire liberal establishment just kept saying "I hear you, I agree with
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Crap about history gets published. Historians freak out. Why do we care about Wodan weddings in England? It's not like someone is publishing misleading articles about science, right?It matters. It
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I think we need to have a serious conversation about the importance of humour in opposition to authoritarian power.Many are angry at Turkey’s opposition leaders for making jokes about the
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At the end of the day Biden represents ports who make their money bringing imports in, and Trump represents the interior of country that produces exports (or used to). Biden
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I disagree that Trump ran as an "economic populist" in 2016. He called for tax cuts for the rich, opposed increasing the minimum wage (@PeterBeinart says otherwise), & called for
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Discursively speaking, hashtag gamers with christian crosses in their profiles and marxists that don't even follow antifa accounts are not really people. They don't matter, they're not part of any
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The alt-right and alt-left extremists stirred up a fake brand of populism that played on white grievances and lies. They got them angry, then they lied to them. The media
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I have a half-baked theory about what is wrong with this Government's approach to difficult policy decisions. It is all linked with what I have called 'sloganeering populism' and @rolandmcs
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To those who've been asking me why is Putin terrified of Navalny: this is why.Russian despots are always afraid of being exposed for who they are. Putin has cultivated an
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This is a thread offering a partial defence of the Goodwin-Emberry consensus that "Labour have abandoned the working class" and an account of the growth of 'right-wing populism' generally. In
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A short thread on the Nazi/Trump parallels, drawn from research from How To Stop Fascism (see bio): 1/ The modern far right grows from the same ideological rootstock as Hitler/Mussolini
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Global Equity Positioning Thread 1/5$SPX $ACWI $EEM $EFAUS equity % in MSCI All World Index:- 59%, an ATH & well > DotComUS GDP as % of world:- 24%Global investors are
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So there are LOTS of differences between the U.S. after the Civil War and right now, as Adam says (and my argument is not that this is a 1:1 comparison,
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Good @EricLevitz look at the agony of progressivism, to which I would append one thought:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/2020-election-results-biden-won-democrats-senate-loss.html Some of the agony is a rage against the injustice of
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On the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, we should savor and protect the Long Peace that has followed. Contrary to many expert predictions, eg Einstein, CP
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