right-wingers stole populism like they stole libertarian, and it liberals are more than happy to lump the right-wing populism of the last 20ish years with the general popularity of social programs. the original Populists were proto-socialist farmers in the 19th century and they were probably about as good as white people could get at the time short of our boy.
Populism
IE: doing popular things that make people like you, is inherently bad and evil.
They’re so scared of the unwashed masses they proscribe anything to do with them as evil regardless of the nature of the politics.
right-wingers stole populism like they stole libertarian, and it liberals are more than happy to lump the right-wing populism of the last 20ish years with the general popularity of social programs. the original Populists were proto-socialist farmers in the 19th century and they were probably about as good as white people could get at the time short of our boy.