Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Geraldo Rivera is shilling for Sanders [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)nationalist." Sounds appropriate enough as far as it goes, which isn't enough, neonazi, white supremacist, religious nihilist, but he specifically rejects adding fascist.
All populists are driven by aggressive "anti-elite" resentment, though, elites being whoever their leader defines them as. Both Trump and Sanders define the Democratic Party as elite and demonize the party to their followers.
Above all, though, populist movements take their characters from the large numbers who combine social conservatism with economic progressivism. And that's why we saw both Sanders' and Trump's populists yelling "lock her up" and other constantly, definingly antagonistic behaviors. And why Sanders shouldn't ever be drawing more than token numbers of misfit populist PoC.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden