One problem with anti-systems politics unmoored to class identity or coherent ideology is that when defeated it can easily move in a reactionary direction. Tom Watson (the original Tom Watson) is emblematic. We're seeing some of that in the dirtbag left today, alas.
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Fun fact: it’s 2020.
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Maybe catch up on some more relevant history.https://twitter.com/queenmab87/status/1072670871234461700 …
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Fun fact: the first US populist movement was the group of aptly named "Know Nothings", an explicitly bigoted and racist group: https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/populism-united-states-timeline#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20earliest%20populist%20political%20parties%20in,as%20the%20Order%20of%20the%20Star%20Spangled%20Banner ….
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There’s tons and tons of articles on this available. Whole volumes worth.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/05/10/450552/drivers-authoritarian-populism-united-states/ …
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Populism and (white) nationalism—a coin.
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Early Populists were mostly indifferent to race, and then they mostly sold out to white supremacy extremely quickly (look at Tom Watson, notably)
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Successful progressive populist movements are pretty rare. Right wing populist movements have been really popular. Fascism has a really good run and is making a big comeback.
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My understanding of 19th century populists like William Jennings Bryan is not quite like that? Are you talking earlier?
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He means the actual party known as Populists. His view of them is... rosier than they deserve.
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Yeah, and in the 20th century, Southern evangelicals were Democrats.
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