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i grew up thinking that populism was the purview of the left wing, because the word was most often used to characterize the coordinated effort by midwest liberal stalwart Senators Harold Hughes, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern & HHHumphrey to elevate the common man of rural America.Gary Coal Man said:Would you then say that Bernie and the Democratic-Socialists crusade against “the 1%” is left wing populism?
my sense is that populism is used mostly nowadays as a euphemism for a certain Italian word that the owner of FBG doesnt like to see bandied about here
the SJW branch of the left wing certainly has the same Puritan streak that was characteristic of the Tea Party on the right. there will always be a percentage of the population, on all segments of the political spectrum, who crave a party line - specific criteria around which to rally and by which to put opponents on the rack - and i'm guessing that judgemental part of the political urge is about to be exercised en masse, with little judgement at all, by Puritans of multiculturalism