• TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s the beauty of sado-populism

    • Enact policy that hurts your constituents

    • Blame out-group du jour for the problem

    • Run on “stopping” said out-group

    • Rinse and repeat, change out-group as necessary.

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      8 months ago

      Populism is always bad. Be it left or right, conservative or liberal, socialist or capitalist. It is always reactionary and never leads anywhere sane or sober.

      • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        Can you please define what you view as “populism”? For whatever reason every time someone says it they either mean a definition so vague and broad that it means almost any mass movement or definition different from any other I’ve heard.

        I have spent the past few weeks constantly getting more and more confused.