We have a populism problem in America…
One big, honking populist has just been shooed out of the White House. And his replacement while more of an old political hack and Washington establishmentarian than a populist per se is coming in trailing strong fumes of populism from his own political party.
Populism isn’t a Right‐wing or Left‐wing ideology. Populism isn’t an ideology at all…It’s about feelings, not ideas. Populism isn’t conservative or liberal, Republican or Democratic. But it
is both MAGA and BLM, both QAnon and Antifa AOC in a Boogaloo Boys Hawaiian shirt.
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Can the Left Reclaim Populism With Biden as the Modern FDR? A prolific and outspoken author contends the term populism has been turned on its head, and not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has the White House been occupied by a man of the people. Clay Jenkinson, Editor-at-Large and Dennis McKenna, Editor-in-Chief | April 16, 2021
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Author Thomas Frank is an unapologetic liberal and populist. Those characteristics shape his writing and worldview. He finds promise in the country’s original populists, who adopted the term in 1891, and who were protesting “unbearable debt, monopoly and corruption … forcing the country to acknowledge that ordinary Americans who were just as worthy as bankers or railroad barons were being ruined by an economic system that in fact answered to no moral laws.” Frank sees distinct paral