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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020

      Populism is a response to the failure of liberal systems: the substantive inequality produced by purported neutrality. But when a populist program fails politically, all that remains is anti-liberalism: hence the reactionary turn: the Tom Watson syndrome.

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    3. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      That’s not what populism is. Populism is racist, nativist, protectionist fantasy politics. Stop trying to make it something it isn’t. Take some fucking responsiblity for spreading that evil.

      5 replies 44 retweets 381 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon

      Fun fact: original populists in 19th century America were a bi-racial coalition that in fact fought for black equality in the face of brutal Jim Crow system.

      48 replies 3 retweets 34 likes
    5. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Fun fact: it’s 2020.

      5 replies 3 retweets 309 likes
    6. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon @HeerJeet

      Dean Haddix Retweeted Dr. Mia Brett

      Maybe catch up on some more relevant history.https://twitter.com/queenmab87/status/1072670871234461700 …

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      Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87
      Populist movements are often xenophobic, nationalistic, nativist, and racist while imagining a pure homogeneous morally good "people." /4
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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon

      Yeah, that's liberal bullshit.

      44 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
    8. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      You can’t be serious. Your response to is to just stick your fingers in your ears? Ok, have fun clowning.

      3 replies 1 retweet 216 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon

      I think the problem is to refute your review would require you reading some books: Michael Kazin's The Populist Persuasion, John Judis' The Populist Explosion for a start. I'd also add that the main racists in American history have been anti-populist elitists.

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    10. Magdi Semrau‏ @magi_jay 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @doctor_eon

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
      Replying to @magi_jay @doctor_eon

      The systems of slavery and Jim Crow were not set up by populists but rather by people who were squarely in the elite consensus of liberalism & conservatism (from Locke to Woodrow Wilson).

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        2. Magdi Semrau‏ @magi_jay 11 Jul 2020
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          I don't see Trump as a populist. Hillary Clinton supporters on average made less money that Trump supporters. Nor is there anything populist in Trump's agenda of enriching the wealthy. It's true there have been populist racists, but also (pervasively) elite racists

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        2. Dr. Mia Brett‏ @QueenMab87 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          This just...isn’t true. Slavery was “set up” before populism was a political movement. Wilson supported him crow but didn’t set it up. The KKK were anti elite anti northern often populist.

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        3. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @QueenMab87 @HeerJeet @magi_jay

          I’d say the KKK is historically one of the largest populist movements in American history, now that you’ve mentioned it. The Tea Party is just the KKK without hoods and horses, for a more recent example of their ideology seeping into the mainstream.

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        2. Jonathan Wagner / BLM‏ @mrjwags 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          Are you suggesting that there was significant Southern white popular resistance to Jim Crow laws? That Jim Crow passed DESPITE Southern white people largely being against it?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @mrjwags @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          There doesn't have to be significant popular resistance (although C. Vann Woodward & others have found some). If the racism was run by elite class & shared by all classes of white society, then it can't be called populist.

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        1. Truth Social Junk Bonds Fox‏ @TheBigFoxx 11 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          This is just silliness. Jim Crow was set up by southern populists to win votes.

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        2. man of mystery  🐝  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿  🇺🇦‏ @ThinkngMansGame 12 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @doctor_eon

          Populism didn’t exist in 1790. Tom Watson, who you single out as a paragon, spent 6 or 7 years talking inclusion - even though AA were always in segregated areas at his rallies. When he lost re-election to House he dropped all pretense & was a race baiting segregationist & anti-

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        3. man of mystery  🐝  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿  🇺🇦‏ @ThinkngMansGame 12 Jul 2020
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          Catholic. Except for lynching, he never opposed Jim Crow. Farm Alliance, in fact, grew out of movement in Texas to stop oppressive agrarian policy AND opening fed land to (AA & Hispanic) settlement. Wilson was racist but Jim Crow was already there & most populists were OK with it

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