#Populist

What are the key persuasive strategies used by populist nationalists?A mix of advocative (we the people) & conflictive (discredit & blame elites & 'dangerous others' such as the Left, Muslims
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Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-Pepys10th July 1665Up, and I having a little anger about Hartley-Brewer already, she taking too little care and spilling my chamber pot across
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The thing about "white supremacy" and "economic causes" is that they are compatible and complementary explanations, in many cases like in Louisiana for instance, the populist Longist policy regime was
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Building a "Big Tent". Extending the metaphor, a (long) thread.A big tent isn't built through wishy washy positions or through ideological purity. A big tent needs strong but limber poles/stakes
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One text I read while writing about Lasch was a reply to his critics he wrote for Tikkun in 1986 called "Why the Left Has No Future." It starts with
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If Trump loses tonight or in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of excuse-making from the right. Media didn’t cover him fairly. COVID was an insurmountable act of
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I think the message I want to get across is that yes, there are truths which people need to know, but that there is a time and a place for
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The list of pardons by Trump, now swelled by a last round, now includes a large chunk of the most high-profile political corruption prosecutions of recent years, on both the
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1. Millions of Americans love MAGA more than they love democracy. There should be zero doubt, Trump is just a mirror of America - a populist candidate. This is not
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1.I am hearing a lot of talk from conservatives that they still believe President Trump has a chance to pull off a miracle win and the big question to ask
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Several things are risible about the Matt Goodwin column. 1. the idea that you generate free speech by dictating speaking policies to universities. 2. the conflation of free speech with
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I wonder how many people know political parties are members of an international alliance to elect each other, and set similar goals? Trump , Johnson , Morrison , and Modi
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Man this is such a colossal fuck up though, like, wow. I guess the assumption is Draghi could reform the coalition that Conte had (PD-M5S-LeU-IV) which might happen but...(1/9)https://twitter.com/CiaranDold/status/1356745019969966084 Italia
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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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One of Trump’s big mistakes is using citizens as his assassination tool.This is a very bad idea for fascists. You use your loyalists, your secret police, keep people afraid.You do
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"Edmund Burke was both right and hard right. He was as in favor of the American Revolution as he was horrified by the French; he believed in pluralism, modest but
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