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Expecting Rain

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1. Populism is always bad

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Wed Jun 28, 2017, 11:12 AM

Jun 2017

Right-wing populism. Left-wing-populism. Both rely on stirring people to anger and focusing blame on an internal enemy.

Populism never turns out well.

It antithetical to reasoned liberalism is not the path we should follow as Democrats.

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These trump voting 'populists' voted for him because of his racist/misogynist/xenophobic/homophobic [View all] boston bean Jun 2017 OP

Populism is always bad Expecting Rain Jun 2017 #1

Yup. It's emotional rather than logical. Oneironaut Jun 2017 #9

R#3 & K, tyvm UTUSN Jun 2017 #2

The huge majority of post mortem election analyses, both Dem & Repub... Orrex Jun 2017 #3

yep. thank you! boston bean Jun 2017 #4

It's almost like a strategy or something Orrex Jun 2017 #7

All true. Not about facts, policy or even the voter's needs: This is all psychological. lindysalsagal Jun 2017 #5

They think those behaviors make a person powerful leftstreet Jun 2017 #6

k and r niyad Jun 2017 #8

That's the difference between both sides. rogue emissary Jun 2017 #10

Agtee as to why most voted DT Alice11111 Jun 2017 #11

I saw a guy in rural Illinois yesterday Nevernose Jun 2017 #13

Evidently, more &more people are putting up his signs & Alice11111 Jun 2017 #16

Most white people at least in the upper midwest grow up in almost entirely white areas gollygee Jun 2017 #15

Yeah, but they voted for Obama Alice11111 Jun 2017 #17

I don't buy that gollygee Jun 2017 #18

Why is that so difficult for the media to understand? Why is that so difficult for anyone to see? nikibatts Jun 2017 #12

K&R mcar Jun 2017 #14