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