I think a broad Tuckerite populism is totally possible. A heartland “progressive Nationalism”. The problem is that the online Right is too spergy & combative to build coalitions, constantly throwing the opposition into briar patches
Socialism sucks up wealth and destroys it in tons of little ways that show up in your society being poorer. All the stuff in that thread is from a combination of Swedes being Swedes and Swedes being poor. Socialism in the US would do the same
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That's not to say that it's not an alternate approach that could get enough votes to win *and* be better than

America but 1970s stagnation and decay kinda sucked too -
What do the 70s have to do with this?
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