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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Try Richard Hofstader and Cas Mudde
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Hofstadter's views on populism are widely regarded as discredited by experts in the field. For a quick summary of a vast literature see here:https://issforum.org/roundtables/policy/1-5an-paranoid …
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You're just demonstrating you don't understand how to engage in scholarly dialogue w/ all of this. You're cherry-picking literature that conforms to your beliefs. Also, it's false that the "main racists in American history" have been anti-populist elitists.
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Surely some have been anti-populist elitists, but a lot have also been populists. Heard of George Wallace? The KKK? Donald Trump? What about the factors that drove party realignment?
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“the main racists in American history”
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Lol what
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This is................incorrect. Why wouldn't you just ask a historian or look this up?
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That’s a long winded way of saying “I can’t”
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Oooh I’ve heard this one so many times before!!! Some dude has no counter-argument so he tells me that I must need to do some more reading. I need to educate myself on the literature.


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Did you get to the part in those histories where the white Populists throw the Black Populists under the bus when the political alliance failed to bear fruit quickly enough for the white Populists? Sorry, did I need a spoiler warning there?
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