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It continues to blow my mind that Donald Trump — the ultimate nepo baby — is embraced as a “populist” by tens of millions of Americans. “By age 3, [Trump] was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire,” the New York Times...
by Christopher Nerney
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 04:14 PM PDT
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A Populist speaks for the ordinary people, the common man, the working class. Ours is a time of massive income inequality. As the 19th century Populists said, we have a society of “tramps and millionaires,” though now it’s billionaires. Left-wing...
by Rare Old Bird
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 05:16 AM PDT
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Tomorrow there will be a demonstration in downtown Prague. We got a little flyer in our mailbox. If you're thinking that this looks like some hyped-up, jingoistic crap— you’re right! Flip the flyer over and it's from PRO. The back of the flyer sets out...
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 08:16 AM PDT
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Messianism is an immense living force in the world today. Almost everywhere… there are messianic movements in the process of vigorous growth, continuing disintegration, or frequent renaissances of older structures. Though some are unquestionably...
by old 60s radical
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM PST
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David Neiwert posts here at Daily Kos from time to time. (He’s a Daily Kos Staff Emeritus) He’s a published author and investigative journalist. I first ran across him thanks to Digby, if I recall correctly, who pointed to his website Orcinus. Although...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 07:38 AM PST
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That is the title of the thesis* with which the Italian Francesco Morella received a PHD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands November this year. The answer to that question is relevant for who wants to understand what is going on in Europe, where...
by the shrink
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 02:35 AM PST
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See the update below with Kevin Drum’s take on the import of this election 11-24-23 12:00 noon ET If you didn’t see the post about this from marsanges, here it is: Shock election result in The Netherlands - Geert Wilders wins ...Geert Wilders is the...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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I was commenting on another article and realized that one of the two trends that I think are the most danger didn’t actually fit as a response to that post so I decided to split it of. That separate issue is POPULISM. In 2017 or 2018, I was involved in...
by jwgarman
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 06:37 PM PST
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Today's big media news is that Fox News head Rupert Murdoch has announced he will be stepping down to become “chairman emeritus” at Fox News Corp. and its parent company, Fox Corp. Here’s him describing what that means: In my new role, I can guarantee...
by Hunter
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 10:51 AM PDT
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Recent Politico article by the editor of National Review underestimates the contributions of the controversial and flamboyant Louisiana depression-era governor while trying to normalize Trump. The article is mostly wrong. 1. Huey was a builder. He...
by michaelrubin
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on Fri Aug 11, 2023 at 05:05 AM PDT
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Introduction: Restoring a Farm Justice Farm Bill Iowa’s Tom Harkin has been the greatest Senator of the past 40 years on the Farm Bill, because of his leadership in introducing proposals to restore true Democratic Party farm programs. In 1985 Harkin...
by Iowa Farm Activist
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 06:36 AM PST
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Populism: “a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.” — Oxford Languages. Political scientists and armchair analysts (guilty) have long wondered why so many...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Fri Jan 13, 2023 at 11:18 AM PST
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Part 6: The Double-edged Sword of Populism
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed…For this mind, group hatreds take a place in ...
by Brynne
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on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 04:00 AM PST
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This is not a rebuke of a story that’s generating a lot of heat on Daily Kos. This is my attempt to have a conversation, and reveal a new angle in this discussion. First of all, I CAN RELATE. I woke up the day after election day, 2016 sick to my...
by wruckusgroink
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on Mon Jan 02, 2023 at 12:25 PM PST
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Our local Democratic US Senatorial Candidate in Kansas is Rev Mark Holland (who noted Thursday he didn't have enough money to buy lunch at Taco Bell). See www.facebook.com/… and www.hollandforkansas.com . I haven't seen any TV ads for Rev Holland even...
by Ridgegunner
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on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 05:13 PM PDT
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At this point nearly everyone has gotten around to saying that the United States has a fascism problem. I remember watching as more and more "right-wing" pundits crossed that line, I remember feeling growing alarm and being told that speaking the name...
by futurebird
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on Sat Sep 17, 2022 at 04:27 PM PDT
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Breaking July 15, 2022 — The Strike has been put on hold by presidential order — see the UPDATE story here. The news about people who work for a living has featured some recent breakthrough stories, where previously immune companies have seen their...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jul 14, 2022 at 08:38 AM PDT
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Robert Reich wrote an important thought piece in The Guardian that was well picked up by crepescule here on DK yesterday. I sympathize with my fellow Northern Californian Reich’s point of view, as well as his frustration and passion. A political party...
by rdewey
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on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Words matter and play an important role in the corporate media’s legitimizing of Trump and his party. While no secret to most of us here at Daily KOS, I was still upset when I considered the implications of CNN and other media sources that referred to...
by psychusa
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on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 07:21 AM PDT
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I’ve been watching America from the outside for several months now and I’m seeing something that concerns me. There is a concerted effort by the GOP to embrace ignorance that I’m calling “Everybody Knows”. I’m seeing it everywhere. Here are some recent...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Thu Apr 07, 2022 at 11:39 AM PDT
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